58 GRAMMAR Order of adjectives happy, rich and famous Adjectives with -ed or -ing _ tired, tiring More than one adjective © We can join adjectives with and. Jim has become happy and rich. © If we join more than two adjectives with commas we usually put and between the last two. Jim has become happy, rich and famous. Order of adjectives © If we use more than one adjective, the order is important. There are four main groups of adjectives, numbered here 1 to 4, 1 One or more of these types of adjective: 1a Opinion: beautiful 1b Size: large le Age: old 1d. Shape: round le Temperature: cold 2 Colours: green, blue, etc. 3. Material (what it is made of): wooden, plastic, etc. 4. Purpose (what it is for): a running shoe 5 Noun ico) 5 an old, leather, football boot (notice the use of commas) C2 aS some new, orange, lycra, cycling shorts i a beautiful, green, silk shirt © A word, usually a noun (eg. football), can be used as an adjective. {football boot tennis racket Adjectives ending -ed or -ing Some adjectives have forms ending in -ed and -ing with different meanings. lam tired. (I feel tired.) My work is tiring. —_ (It makes me tired.) bored interested excited worried ‘fascinated boring interesting exciting worrying ‘fascinatingGRAMMAR 58 ORDER OF ADJECTIVES; ADJECTIVES WITH -ED OR -ING 11 Write the words in the correct order. 1 shirt cotton a new lovely -Bilovely mew cotton shirt large wooden old a house apples large two green beautiful film an new interesting science-fiction green vase old a beautiful short a coat red plastic carpet a old beautiful blue puppy little a sweet black euaunon 2. Write compound words. a boot for playing football a shoe for running in a stadium for athletics a costume for swimming a village on a mountain a student at university a bus for the school writ 1 2 3 aroad in the country 4 5 6 7 8 3 Complete each sentence with a word ending in -ed or -ing. 1 I think this film is bering. 2. Idor't find politics i 3. Walking makes me t. 4. This book is really 5 Kate is doing her exams and is w. 6 7 8 Are you . in basketball? Dick always feels b.. .-at the beach. Jane finds computers very c.. 4 Underline the correct word in each sentence. 1 Tcouldn’t concentrate at school today because I was very tired / tiring. Sarah was shocked / shocking by her friend’s news. There's an amazed / amazing robot display at the Science Museum. ‘We were very disappointed / disappointing with our poor exam results. I don’t understand this film. Its very confused / confusing. Its been a long, tired / tiring day and now I want to go home and relax. Joes parents were really worried / worrying when he ran away from home. My brother told a very amused / amusing joke at dinner last night. euvauaon 49