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Adjective Order Guide for ESL Students

The document provides information about adjective order in English grammar. It explains that determiners such as "a", "an", "the" come first, followed by opinion adjectives like "beautiful" or "silly". Size adjectives describing how big or small something is come next, followed by age adjectives, then shape, color, origin where something comes from, material made of, and purpose adjectives ending in "ing". Examples of each type of adjective are given along with a table showing the correct order. The document concludes with more examples of adjective ordering and an extra task to describe celebrities without naming them.

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Adjective Order Guide for ESL Students

The document provides information about adjective order in English grammar. It explains that determiners such as "a", "an", "the" come first, followed by opinion adjectives like "beautiful" or "silly". Size adjectives describing how big or small something is come next, followed by age adjectives, then shape, color, origin where something comes from, material made of, and purpose adjectives ending in "ing". Examples of each type of adjective are given along with a table showing the correct order. The document concludes with more examples of adjective ordering and an extra task to describe celebrities without naming them.

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UNIT 2

GRAMMAR:
ADJECTIVE ORDER

All you need to know about THE ADJECTIVE ORDER


The determiner: to inform if the adjective is singular or plural, definite or indefinite, next
Determiner or far. Examples: a car, an apple, the book, the flowers, this man, that woman, these
computers, those teachers.
An opinion adjective explains what you think about something (other people may not
Opinion agree with you). Examples:
silly, beautiful, horrible, difficult
A size adjective, of course, tells you how big or small something is. Examples:
Size
large, tiny, enormous, little
An age adjective tells you how young or old something or someone is. Examples:
Age
ancient, new, young, old
A shape adjective describes the shape of something. Examples:
Shape
square, round, flat, rectangular
A colour adjective, of course, describes the colour of something. Examples:
Colour
blue, pink, reddish, grey
An origin adjective describes where something comes from. Examples:
Origin
French, lunar, American, eastern, Greek
Material A material adjective describes what something is made from. Examples:
wooden, metal, cotton, paper
Purpose A purpose adjective describes what something is used for. These adjectives often end with
"-ing". Examples: sleeping (as in "sleeping bag")

NOUN

The noun: The word that is receiving the adjectives.

O
OPINION
Beautiful
Handsome
Disgusting
Cute

SIZE
Short
Tall

AGE
Old
Young
Middle- aged
30 year-old

Shape
Fat
Slim
Stout
Plump

COLOR
White
Black
Brunette
Blond
Tanned

Origin
Mexican
American
British
Indian
Peruvian

ONLY
THINGS
M

MATERIAL
Stone
Leather
Fabric
Wool
Silk

EXAMPLES
That

OPINION

SIZE

AGE

SHAPE

COLOUR

healthy

big

young

stout

redhead

short

middleaged

thin

The

lovely

short

cute

little

beautiful

Those

noisy

pretty

tall

My

favourite

long

Some

ORIGIN

fat

Mexican

American

new

grey

Colombian

young

black

brunette

red
old

blue

lady

wool

black

plump

NOUN
guy

black
newborn

MATERIAL

skirt
baby

synthetic

bag

kids

Canadian

girl

leather

boots
jeans

More examples of adjective order


Determiner

Opinion

handsome

Size

Age

Shape

Colour

young

huge

small

Origin

Material

Purpose

Brazilian

round

man

metal

yellow

NOUN

bowl

sleeping

bag

EXTRA TASK:
Work in pairs and describe some celebrities without
mentioning their names.
e.g. He's a fantastic young Scottish tennis player
(Andy Murray)
AIM: to guess the name of the person you are
describing.

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