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 01. Put the adjectives in the correct order Exercise 02. Correct or wrong?
Correct Wrong
1. I wanted to buy a_______________________ table. 1. Do you want this red sport bike?
(round/blue/Italian/dining/big) 2. He wore long Italian old coat.
2. Does Miriam need that _________________ chair? 3. Will you buy me a small pink hat?
(wooden-small-square) 4. Matt saw a strange large blue ball.
3. What is this _____________________ thing? 5. Don’t touch that green square box!
6. Who took my Swiss army knife?
(red/triangular/leather)
7. My mum hates my blue velvet belt.
4. Did you notice the brand of that ______________ 8. This is a half-year-old English dog
_________________________ car? (green/ 9. This woolen grey scarf suits you.
streamlined/splendid/sport) 10. I chose a nice green modern tint.
5. William can take care of your _______________
_________ 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 is 3. I’m/need/that/wooden/black/sure/I/this/stylish/chair
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 01. Put the adjectives in the correct order Exercise 02. Correct or wrong?

1. I wanted to buy a big, round, blue, Italian dining Correct Wrong

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 small, square, wooden chair?
3. Will you buy me a small pink hat? +
(wooden/small/square) 4. Matt saw a strange large blue ball. +
3. What is this triangular, red leather thing? (red/ 5. Don’t touch that green square box! +
triangular/leather) 6. Who took my Swiss army knife? +
4. Did you notice the brand of that splendid, 7. My mum hates my blue velvet belt. +
streamlined, green sport car? (green/ 8. This is a half-year-old English dog +
9. This woolen grey scarf suits you. +
streamlined/splendid/sport)
10. I chose a nice green modern tint. +
5. William can take care of your naughty white Persian
cat. (Persian/naughty/white)
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!
(plastic/red/round) 1. presented/my/me/white/ball/friend/round/fine/leather/a
9. Mike will order a nice, light English breakfast. My friend presented me a fine round white leather ball.
(English/light/nice) 2. old/university/your/can/call/you/Italian/friend ?
10. This amazing elegantly-shaped brown wooden Can you call your old Italian university friend?
wardrobe is my friends’ gift. (elegantly-shaped/ 3. I’m/need/that/wooden/black/sure/I/this/stylish/chair
amazing/brown/wooden) I’m sure that I need this stylish black wooden chair.
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