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Order of adjectives
Opinion Size Shape Age Color Origin Material Purpose
A subjective To estimate the To mark out To convey how To describe To show the To express To define what
attitude to dimensions of any forms old something any colors or country an materials an an object is
someone or an object or a an object or someone is tints an object object/person object can be used for
something person can have e.g. antique, can have comes from made of e.g. dining,
e.g. nice, e.g. large, e.g. round, young, two- e.g. grey, e.g. French, e.g. wooden, hotel,
perfect huge, narrow triangular year-old silver, beige English, Italian silk, woolen swimming

Exercise 02. Correct or wrong?

Exercise 01. Put the adjectives in the correct order
Correct Wrong
1. I wanted to buy a_______________________ 1. Do you want this red sport bike?
table. (round/blue/Italian/dining/big) 2. He wore long Italian old coat.
2. Does Miriam need that _________________ 3. Will you buy me a small pink hat?
chair? (wooden-small-square) 4. Matt saw a strange large blue ball.
3. What is this _____________________ thing?
5. Don’t touch that green square box!
(red/triangular/leather)
6. Who took my Swiss army knife?
4. Did you notice the brand of that ______________
7. My mum hates my blue velvet belt.
_________________________ car? (green/
8. This is a half-year-old English dog
streamlined/splendid/sport)
9. This woolen grey scarf suits you.
5. William can take care of your _______________
10. I chose a nice green modern tint.
_________ cat. (Persian/naughty/white)
6. This ________________________ scarf belongs
to my brother. (woolen/long/multicolored)
7. Are you sure this ___________________ sabre is Exercise 03. Make up sentences
Turkish? (curved/nice/steel)
8. Press this ____________________ button never! 1. presented/my/me/white/ball/friend/round/fine/leather/a
(plastic/red/round) _______________________________________________
9. Mike will order a_________________ breakfast. 2. old/university/your/can/call/you/Italian/friend ?
(English/light/nice) _______________________________________________
10. This ____________________________ wardrobe 3. I’m/need/that/wooden/black/sure/I/this/stylish/chair
is my friends’ gift. (elegantly-shaped _______________________________________________
/amazing/brown/wooden) 4. Martha’s/violet/outfit/Dylan/didn’t/dance/see/bright
_______________________________________________

Exercise 04. Distribute the adjectives in the correct groups

Opinion

Size

Shape

Age

Color

Origin

Material

Purpose

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Exercise 02. Correct or wrong?

Exercise 01. Put the adjectives in the correct order
Correct Wrong
1. I wanted to buy a big, round, blue, Italian
dining table. (round/blue/Italian/dining/big) 1. Do you want this red sport bike? +
2. Does Miriam need that small, square, wooden 2. He wore long Italian old coat. +
chair? (wooden/small/square) 3. Will you buy me a small pink hat? +
3. What is this triangular, red leather thing? (red/ 4. Matt saw a strange large blue ball. +
triangular/leather) 5. Don’t touch that green square box! +
4. Did you notice the brand of that splendid, 6. Who took my Swiss army knife? +
streamlined, green sport car? (green/ 7. My mum hates my blue velvet belt. +
streamlined/splendid/sport) 8. This is a half-year-old English dog +
5. William can take care of your naughty white 9. This woolen grey scarf suits you. +
Persian cat. (Persian/naughty/white) 10. I chose a nice green modern tint. +
6. This long, multicolored woolen scarf belongs to
my brother. (woolen/long/multicolored)
7. Are you sure this nice curved steel sabre is
Turkish? (curved/nice/steel) Exercise 03. Make up sentences
8. Press this round red plastic button never!
1. presented/my/me/white/ball/friend/round/fine/leather/a
(plastic/red/round)
My friend presented me a fine round white leather ball.
9. Mike will order a nice, light English breakfast.
2. old/university/your/can/call/you/Italian/friend ?
(English/light/nice)
Can you call your old Italian university friend?
10. This amazing elegantly-shaped brown wooden
3. I’m/need/that/wooden/black/sure/I/this/stylish/chair
wardrobe is my friends’ gift. (elegantly-shaped/
I’m sure that I need this stylish black wooden chair.
amazing/brown/wooden)
4. Martha’s/violet/outfit/Dylan/didn’t/dance/see/bright
Dylan didn’t see Martha’s bright violet dance outfit.

Exercise 04. Distribute the adjectives in the correct groups

Opinion beautiful, amazing, nice, lovely

Size enormous, tiny, short, high

Shape square, triangular, round, wavy

Age five-year-old, antique, young, old

Color crimson, turquoise, blue, white

Origin European, French, Chinese, national,

American

Material leather, cotton, wooden, steel

Purpose race, golf, sport, baseball

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