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Inglês 8º Ano – Adjective Word order

Nome: _________________________________________________ Data: ___/___/___

1. Put the adjectives in the correct column.

Scottish new pink oval short elderly wooden amazing

plastic Italian tiny middle-aged wavy horrible brown
lovely square large black enormous silver sad

Opinion Size Quality Age Shape Colour Origin Material

2. Choose the correct adjective order.

a. I bought a ______________________________ smartphone.
1. fantastic new black
2. black new fantastic
3. new black fantastic

b. Dimitris’s uncle lives in ______________________________ village.

1. an old lovely little
2. a lovely little old
3. a little lovely old

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 c. In my grandparents’ living room there’s an ______________________________
painting.
1. outstanding eighteenth-century oil
2. eighteenth-century oil outstanding
3. eighteenth-century outstanding oil

d. According to the news, the bank robber has ___________________________.

1. dark curly long
2. curly long dark
3. long curly dark

e. The media said some ______________________________ vases were stolen

last night.
1. priceless Chinese blue
2. priceless blue Chinese
3. Chinese priceless blue

3. Put the adjectives in brackets in the right order.

a. It all happened on a ______________________________ afternoon (grey /
sad) in a ______________________________ cottage. (large / stone / beautiful)
b. Dimitris’s father gave him a/an ______________________________ puppy.
(black / adorable)
c. He has just offered his mum a ______________________________ necklace.
(silver / charming)
d. The first TV sets looked like______________________________ boxes (brown
/ square / strange) with a ______________________________ screen in the middle.
(glass / curved / tiny)

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