ADJECTIVE ORDER (2)

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WHAT IS ADJECTIVE?
 Adjective

ADJECTIVE IS WORD THAT

MODIFIES / DESCRIBES NOUN
Now Listen to the audio
 Read this
Hi, everyone. How’s your day going? This morning, the Metro
was loud, hot and crowded…again. And the train driver kept
stopping and starting so I lost my footing and bumped into
someone. Ugh.
I need a different way to get to work! But what? Oh, I know:
I’ll buy a new folding bike! Oh wait – or is it a folding new
bike? No, that doesn’t sound right. New folding bike is right.

Please find the adjectives from the text above!

 The writer used two adjectives to describe the bike: new and folding. But
why couldn’t I change the order? The answer is that they are cumulative
adjectives.

Cumulative adjectives are adjectives that must appear in a special

order to express the meaning that we want to express. For example, if I told
a native English speaker I was buying a folding new bike, they might not
understand me.
The writer also used three adjectives to describe the Metro: loud, hot and
crowded. But those adjectives are coordinative. They do not follow a
special order. And they have different punctuation rules.

We do put commas between coordinative adjectives and we can use

the word “and,” as in “loud, hot and crowded Metro.”
The order of Cumulative Adjective
QUANTITY
1 THESE ADJECTIVES ANSWER THE
QUESTION “HOW MUCH?” OR “HOW
4 AGE
MANY?” THIS CAN REFER TO SPECIFIC AGE
ADJECTIVES
2 OPINION 5 SHAPE
EXPRESS HOW WE FEEL ABOUT SOMETHING.
6 COLOR 8 MATERIAL

3 SIZE
7 ORIGIN
9 PURPOSE
.THIS INCLUDES ANY NUMBER OF DESCRIPTIVE
SIZE WORDS
PLEASE CLASSIFY THE ADJECTIVES BELOW!