Order of adjectives

Exercise 1 Use your instict and choose the most natural sounding
alternative. 

1.  She was wearing a   evening-gown.

green long silk - silk green long - long green silk

2.  He arrived in   car.
a beautiful old sports - a sports old beautiful - an old beautiful sports
3.  She sat down on a   sofa.
comfortable leather black - comfortable black leather - black leather
comfortable
4.  She bought some   cushions.
enormous red striped - striped enormous red - enormous red striped
5.  On the floor was a   rug
round patterned Persian - patterned Persian round - Persian round
patterned
6.  Beside the fireplace were two   bookcases.
antique oak French - antique French oak - French antique oak
7.  She put on a   pullover.
yellow soft woolly - woolly yellow soft - soft yellow woolly
8.  He was with that   friend of his.
clever handsome young - handsome young clever - handsome clever
young
9.  The concert was held in that   theatre.
amazing new glass - new amazing glass - amazing glass new
10.  We sat down at an   table.
ugly oval pine - ugly pine oval - oval ugly pine

Using the information from Exercise 1, put the adjective types

Exercise 2 into the right order
  a) pattern
1. 

2.    b colour

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3.    c) age
4.    d shape

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5.    e) origin
6.    f) other qualities
7.    g) opinion
8.    h purpose or type

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9.    i) size
10.    j) material

Exercise 3 Put the words into the right category.

Opinion Size Other Age Shape

 Colour Pattern Origin Material Purpose

gorgeous tall square

young tight oval
amazing tiny rectangular
expensive short beige
modern round striped
ancient flat polka-dot
scarlet Scandinavian plain
purple Swiss eastern
vast denim sports
practical suede tea
soft linen grammar
comfortable cotton foreign
hard-wearing corduroy oriental
friendly gardening frying
hideous violet
warm blueish
antique checked
Victorian floral

Exercise 4 Put the words into the right order

 Polkadot Half-timbered Paisley pattern

1.  bikini yellow polkadot wore itsy-bitsy teenie-weenie she an

2.  little those puppies spotted cute look black-and-white at Dalmatian

3.  beautiful beach deserted discovered golden we sandy this

4.  production new enormous facility car an purpose-built they've opened

5.  teacher young got Swedish PT we've tall a good-looking

6.  new smartphone himself he's an all-bells-and-whistles bought just amazing

7.  she gorgeous wearing a was purple evening backless dress silk
8.  in live they half-timbered cottage old country a black-and-white tiny

9.  wearing a he brightly-coloured rather was attractive tie silk Paisley-pattern

10.  Swiss I've this just bought army incredible see-through multi-function
knife

Exercise 5 Put the words into the right order

1.  advertisement new sexist stupid you car did that sports see

2.  swanky cowboy hand-tooled a pair he's boots of brown leather got

3.  old long-haired cat Siamese they've friendly got a

4.  is made green marble of their Italian stripy fake fireplace

5.  book our got cookery the Spanish we from recipe favourite

6.  it leather down an loose-leaf in old wrote red he notebook

7.  hideous the French dressing oval at great looked wooden-framed he mirror

8.  warm she green was woollen a long skirt tartan wearing

9.  tall Polish to introduced was a charming model he young

10.  gave five-course lavish a Italian beautifully-prepared dinner they us