Name: _________________________________________________ Date:_____________________

Activity: Which is the correct order?

1 He goes out with___

A. a small Canadian funny lady.
B. a Canadian small funny lady.
C. a small funny Canadian lady.
D. a funny small Canadian lady.
2 I used _______________________ to cut the roast beef.
A. a carving steel new knife
B. a new steel carving knife
C. a steel new carving knife
D. a new carving steel knife
3 My uncle just bought ___________
A. a beautiful blue sailing boat.
B. a blue beautiful sailing boat.
C. a sailing beautiful blue boat.
D. a blue sailing beautiful boat.
4 I put ____________________________ in the garbage.
A. an old wooden square table
B. a square wooden old table
C. an old square wooden table
D. a wooden old square table
5 We went to the Bell Center and saw _____________________
A. an new French exciting band.
B. a French new exciting band.
C. an exciting French new band.
D. an exciting new French band.
6 She was wearing __________________ at the party.
A. an ugly red big plastic hat
B. an ugly big red plastic hat
C. a plastic ugly big red hat
D. a big ugly plastic red hat
7 My soup is in _________________________
A. a small Japanese serving bowl.
B. a Japanese small serving bowl.
C. a small serving Japanese bowl.
D. a serving small Japanese bowl.
8 Her husband was wearing __________________________
A. a long cotton dirty old tie.
B. a dirty long cotton old tie.
C. an old long cotton dirty tie
D. a dirty long old cotton tie.
 Order of Adjectives

It is very common to use more than one adjective, there is a specific order.

1. Determiner and Quantifiers - a, an, her, five many, much several etc.
2. Opinion - pretty, ugly, smart, cheap, etc.
3. Size - big, fat, thin, tall, large, small etc.
4. Shape - circle, square, tall, etc.
5. Age - old, young 10 years, a year, a week, new etc.
6. Color - yellow, green, pink etc.
7. Origin - American, Asian, Middle Eastern, African, European, Chinese etc.
8. Material - cotton, wood, plastic, cloth, glass, gold etc.

Determiner Opinion Size Shape Age Color Origine Materiel purpose Noun
Quantifier
 A tall red brick building
1
The small new money purse
2
A few hot round bran muffins
3
Many old porcelain flower vases
4
Some bright square blue markers
5
A dirty bedroom
6
This skinny young French boy
7
cats
8
box
9
socks
10
man
11
Glasses
12
9. Purpose - the reason that something is needed (ex: lunch box, sleeping bag)
Now you try, fill in the coloured boxes in numbers 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 with a determinant or quantifier
and three adjectives which correspond with the noun in the last column. Follow the examples, numbers
1 to 7.

1 He goes out with___

D. a funny small Canadian lady.
2 I used _______________________ to cut the roast beef.
B. a new steel carving knife
3 My uncle just bought ___________
A. a beautiful blue sailing boat.
4 I put ____________________________ in the garbage.
C. an old square wooden table
5 We went to the Bell Center and saw _____________________
D. an exciting new French band.
6 She was wearing __________________ at the party.
B. an ugly big red plastic hat
7 My soup is in _________________________
A. a small Japanese serving bowl.
8 Her husband was wearing __________________________
D. a dirty long old cotton tie.

The answers may vary

Determiner Opinion Size Shape Age Color Origine Materiel purpose Noun
Quantifier
A tall red brick building
1
The small new money purse
2
A few hot round bran muffins
3
Many old porcelain flower vases
4
Some bright square blue markers
5
A dirty bedroom
6
This skinny young French boy
7
These lazy gray Persian cats
8
My huge red lunch box
9
Two comfortable old cotton socks
10
The short round Italian man
11
Twelve practical blue plastic glasses
12