HOW TO DESCRIBE THINGS

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EXAMPLE

HOW TO DESCRIBE THINGS

INS TORRE DEL PALAUVicky Leal

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Typegeneral-purpose, four-sided, U-shaped.Purposecleaning, hammering, cooking

Order Relating to Examples 1 opinion unusual, lovely, beautiful 2 size big, small, tall 3 physical quality thin, rough, untidy 4 shape round, square, rectangular 5 age young, old, youthful 6 colour blue, red, pink 7 origin Dutch, Japanese, Turkish 8 material metal, wood, plastic 9 type general-purpose, four-sided, U-shaped Examples: It was made of a 1strange, 6green, 8metallic material. It’s a 2long, 4narrow, 8plastic brush. Panettone is a 4round, 7Italian, 9bread-like Christmas cake. Here are some invented examples of longer adjective phrases. A noun phrase which included all these types would be extremely rare. She was a 1beautiful, 2tall, 3thin, 5young, 6black-haired, 7Scottish woman. What an 1amazing, 2little, 5old, 7Chinese cup and saucer!

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