Adjective Order - Exercises

Article/
Opinion Size Age Shape Colour Origin Material Purpose Noun
Number
the silly young English man
two huge round metal bowls
a small red sleeping bag

Opinion Size Age Shape Colour Material Origin Purpose

Nice Small Old Square Black Plastic British Racing
Ugly Big New Circular Blue Cotton American Running

Choose the correct adjective order.

Q1 - I bought a pair of _____ shoes. a mobile expensive

black leather an expensive mobile
leather black
Q8 - It's ____ village.
Q2 - It was a ____ car. an old lovely
red fast a lovely old
fast red
Q9 - The ____ visitors were Japanese.
Q3 - It's a ____ building. two last
big round last two
round big

Q4 - I bought ____ knife.

a Swiss army
an army Swiss Q10 - He's got ____ eyes.
Q5 - It's ____ film. blue big
a beautiful old big blue
an old beautiful Q11 - It's a ____ house.
Q6 - He's ____ man. nice new
an unfriendly rich new nice
a rich unfriendly

Q7 - It's ____ phone.

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a family old
Q12 - It's ____ airline.
an old family
a popular American
an American popular Q14 - It's a ____ restaurant.
cheap good
Q13 - It's ____ company
good cheap

1. Which is the correct order? a red big plastic hat

a small Canadian thin lady a big red plastic hat
a Canadian small thin lady a plastic big red hat
a small thin Canadian lady a bit plastic red hat
a thin small Canadian lady
7. Which is the correct order?
2. Which is the correct order? a small Japanese serving
a carving steel new knife bowl
a new steel carving knife a Japanese small serving
a steel new carving knife bowl
a new carving steel knife a small serving Japanese
bowl
3. Which is the correct order? a serving small Japanese
a beautiful blue sailing boat bowl
a blue beautiful sailing boat
a sailing beautiful blue boat
a blue sailing beautiful boat

4. Which is the correct order?

an old wooden square table
a square wooden old table
an old square wooden table
a wooden old square table

5. Which is the correct order?

an new French exciting band
a French new exciting band 8. Which is the correct order?
an exciting French new band a cotton dirty old tie
an exciting new French band a dirty cotton old tie
an old cotton dirty tie
6. Which is the correct order? a dirty old cotton tie
Complete the following sentences using the correct adjective order. Use commas between the
adjectives if you have three or more.
 Maria has ______ ________ _________ ________ hair.
black, beautiful, thick

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 I saw the _______ ________ ________ table this morning.

wooden, ugliest, round
 She looks so elegant in her ________ _______ ________ coat.
wool, Italian, long
 That is the _________ ________ _________ sculpture in this museum.
metal, most unusual, modern
 They bought a lot of ________ ________ ________ furniture on the trip.
Indian, antique, interesting

1. At home there is a __________________table in the dining room. (beautiful, wooden, square)

2. I was offered_____________ring by my husband. (gold, a/n, unusual)
3. My grandmother has knitted______________sweater for me. (woolen, new, nice, a)
4. I saw____________movie with friends at home. (a/n, American, old, interesting)
5. It may rain ! There are_____________clouds floating in the air. (black, big, rain, many)
6. It was such_____________day that we decided to go out for a walk. (sunny, lovely, cool, a)
7. My daughter has_______________hair. (black, long, beautiful)
8. Last week, I visited____________village in a remote place. (little, charming, a/n, old)
9. The gallery exhibited mainly______________paintings. (old, French, strange)
10. John was given________________kitten by his sister. (little, a/n, adorable, black)
11. It started to rain so I opened________________umbrella. (red and yellow, a/n, enormous)
12. I inherited _____________house built in 1860. (old, picturesque, a/n)
13. _______________car was parked opposite my house. (Italian, blue, sleek, a/n)

Rewrite the following phrases using the correct adjective order. Use commas between the adjectives
if you have three or more adjectives.

1 warm beach a sandy beautiful

  
2 film handsome American a/n actor
  
3 a/n teacher intelligent part-time likeable
  
4 balloon A plastic red hot-air huge
  
5 A basement apartment fully-furnished lovely
  
6 A dog black pedigree friendly
  

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7 strange small A box square metal

  
8 bag. beautiful A travel leather old
  

1. beautiful Japanese car a/n old

2. big wooden rectangular tables Some

3. small cake A round delicious

4. strong rapper black French short the young

5. watch gold my modern valuable

6. carpet new Chinese charming red their small

7. old black big one Canadian box

8. small necklace silver charming a/n

9. proverb Chinese interesting short a/n

Compiled and Amended by Robert Eastland