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Adjective Order
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Find one word to describe each shirt:
check plain spotted striped
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Find two words to describe each person:
medium-height overweight shortslim tall well-built
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Find two words to describe each person’s hair:
blonde brown curly gingerstraight wavy
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Adjective Order
Look at Wayne. We can say he has short brown hair and he’s wearing a new, striped, football shirt. We don’t say he has brown short hair and he’s wearing a football, striped, new shirt.
Why?
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brown, short, new, football, and striped are adjectives here.
They tell us something about his hair and his shirt. But when we have more than one adjective before a noun, they usually come in a fixed order. If we take one adjective of each type, they would normally follow the following order.
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OpinionAn opinion adjective explains what you think about something (other people may not agree with you).For example: silly, beautiful, horrible, difficult
Size A size adjective, of course, tells you how big or small something is.For example: large, tiny, enormous, little
Age An age adjective tells you how young or old something or someone is.For example: ancient, new, young, old
Shape A shape adjective describes the shape of something.For example: square, round, flat, rectangular
Colour A colour adjective, of course, describes the colour of something.For example: blue, pink, reddish, grey
Origin An origin adjective describes where something comes from.For example: French, American, eastern, Greek
Material A material adjective describes what something is made from.For example: wooden, metal, cotton, paper
Pattern A pattern adjective describes decoration or ornament having such a design.For example: stripe, plain, dotted, spotted
PurposeA purpose adjective describes what something is used for. These adjectives often end with “-ing”.For example: sleeping (as in “sleeping bag”), roasting (as in “roasting tin”)
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• Here are some examples of nouns modified with three adjectives in the correct order based on the list above. Notice that the adjectives are not separated by commas.
• A wonderful old Italian clock. (opinion - age - origin)
• A big square blue box. (size - shape - colour)
• A disgusting pink plastic ornament. (opinion - colour - material)
• Some slim new French trousers. (size - age - origin)
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Now look at the adjectives below.Three of them go with each
picture on the following slide.
blue brown checkcoffee green kitchenmodernnew office red
small sportsstriped tall work
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1. A _ _ _ car. 4. A _ _ _ building.2. A _ _ _ cup. 5. A _ _ _ cloth.3. A _ _ _ shirt.
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Order of adjectives.• The words in each phrase below have been
mixed up. Rewrite them in the correct order.1. small pot a flower brown2. and towel white a bath check red3. bookblue grammar a thin4. white bag large a carrier5. big engine a fire red6. tableold dining long a/an7. tie a and school blue striped
white8. train a passenger grey
modern9. motorcycle helmet and striped black
a red10.enormous stadium football white
a/an
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1. He wears a ________ shirt. a. dirty old flannel b. flannel old dirty c. old dirty flannel
2. Pass me the ________ cups. a. plastic big blueb. big blue plasticc. big plastic blue
3. All the girls fall in love with the ________ teacher.a. handsome new Americanb. American new handsomec. new handsome American
4. I drive ________ car.a. a blue old Germanb. an old German bluec. an old blue German
5. He recently married a ________ woman.a. young beautiful Greekb. beautiful young Greekc. beautiful Greek young
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6. This is a ________ movie.a. new Italian wonderfulb. wonderful Italian newc. wonderful new Italian
7. She is a ________ supermodel. a. beautiful slim Brazilianb. Brazilian beautiful slimc. slim Brazilian beautiful
8. It's in the ________ container.a. large blue metalb. blue large metalc. blue metal large
9. He sits behind a ________ desk. a. big wooden brownb. big brown woodenc. wooden big brown
10.She gives him a ________ vase. a. small Egyptian blackb. black Egyptian smallc. small black Egyptian
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Activity• Identify 5 of your favourite
actors, actresses, singers, athletes, etc. based on his/her appearances
• Present it in front of the class• Example,De Gea is my favourite athlete.He is a handsome tall youngSpanish goalkeeper.