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In English, it is common to use more than one adjective before a noun - for example, "He's a silly

young fool," or "she's a smart, energetic woman." When you use more than one adjective, you have
to put them in the right order, according to type. This page will explain the different types of
adjectives and the correct order for them.
An opinion adjective explains what you think about something (other people may not
agree with you). Examples:
Opinion silly, beautiful, horrible, difficult
Size
Age
Shape
Colour
Origin
Material

A size adjective, of course, tells you how big or small something is. Examples:
large, tiny, enormous, little
An age adjective tells you how young or old something or someone is. Examples:
ancient, new, young, old
A shape adjective describes the shape of something. Examples:
square, round, flat, rectangular
A colour adjective, of course, describes the colour of something. Examples:
blue, pink, reddish, grey
An origin adjective describes where something comes from. Examples:
French, lunar, American, eastern, Greek
A material adjective describes what something is made from. Examples:
wooden, metal, cotton, paper

A purpose adjective describes what something is used for. These adjectives often end with
"-ing". Examples:
Purpose sleeping (as in "sleeping bag"), roasting (as in "roasting tin")
Some examples of adjective order
Opinion
Size
Age
Shape Colour
Origin
Material
Purpose
a silly
young
English
man
a
huge
round
metal
bowl
a
small
red
sleeping
bag
1. Which is the correct order?
a small Canadian thin lady
a Canadian small thin lady
a small thin Canadian lady
a thin small Canadian lady
2. Which is the correct order?
a carving steel new knife
a new steel carving knife
a steel new carving knife
a new carving steel knife
3. Which is the correct order?
a beautiful blue sailing boat
a blue beautiful sailing boat
a sailing beautiful blue boat

a blue sailing beautiful boat


4. Which is the correct order?
an old wooden square table
a square wooden old table
an old square wooden table
a wooden old square table
5. Which is the correct order?
an new French exciting band
a French new exciting band
an exciting French new band
an exciting new French band
6. Which is the correct order?
a red big plastic hat
a big red plastic hat
a plastic big red hat
a bit plastic red hat
7. Which is the correct order?
a small Japanese serving bowl
a Japanese small serving bowl
a small serving Japanese bowl
a serving small Japanese bowl
8. Which is the correct order?
a cotton dirty old tie
a dirty cotton old tie
an old cotton dirty tie
a dirty old cotton tie

Write a paragraph
When i was to junior high ,i used to have fringe hair, i used to wear uniform to Monday to Friday,
for 3 years, I didnt used listen zoe music, I used to watch tv every day. I used to make exercise, i
used to go a movie theater with my friends 2 times in the month.
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Luisa used to paint with the color red the cover notebook
A beautiful big square brown American plastic bag
Mary used to wear emerald collar
A ugly small green china leather jacket
Joaquin used to play soccer with silk uniform. Me too
Joana used to explain the soccer game
I used to clearly remember when my sister born
A pretty length new triangle white U.K. wood ship
I used to think of in my childhood
I remind me of my first day of school

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