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Order of the adjectives
Marta Díaz-M. Ramírez
Created on November 2, 2021
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order of the adjectives
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practice 1
practice 2
test 1
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Examples
Explanation
In English, adjectives have to follow a certain order to be correctly written. The order is: opinion, size, shape, age, colour, origin, and material.
Examples
I hate eating big round yellow apples. My nice Japanese cousin loves white cotton hats
size shape colour
opinion origin colour material
Practice 1: put the adjectives in the correct column
opinion
size
colour
age
shape
material
origin
cotton
plastic
rectangular
white
boring
short
Chinese
Spanish
delicious
wooden
beautiful
old
round
huge
new
cyan
fuschia
square-like
disgusting
metal
enormous
ancient
triangular
young
blue
British
European
tiny
Practice 2: place the icons under the adjectives
origin
material
age
colour
shape
size
opinion
origin
material
age
colour
shape
size
opinion
I brought entertaining rectangular new books for the English lesson.
This tall black metal building is close. We could visit it in my big round German car.
I love this inspiring ancient painting. I also like the brown wooden statue.
Test 1: tick the correct sentences