THE ORDER OF ADJECTIVES

Tính từ trong tiếng Anh được sắp xếp theo thứ tự như sau: O – S – A – S – C – O – M – P

Example
beautiful, pretty, good, clever, fabulous, great, energetic, comfortable, careful, expensive,
O: Opinion
excited, interesting….
S: Size big, small, tiny, tall, huge, enormous, large, immense, colossal, gigantic….
A: Age old, young, modern, ancient, new, up to date….
round, square, rectangular, triangle, quadrangular, pentagonal, hexagonal, octagonal,
S: Shape
spherical….
C: Color red, white, black, green, blue, yellow, gray, brown, murrey, turquoise….
O: Origin Vietnamese, Chinese, English, American, French, Italian, Canadian, Japanese, Korean…
M: Material iron, brick, wooden, woolen, feather, golden, silver, stone, plastic, silk, metal, leather….
P: Purpose dacing, racing, washing, sleeping, breathing, riding, driving, diving, baking….

Để làm được dạng bài tập này cần phải xác định được tính từ đó thuộc nhóm nào và sau đó sắp xếp
chúng theo đúng thứ tự như trên.
Ví dụ:

 - My daughter is an adorable tall young Vietnamese girl.

- My daughter is a tall young Vietnamese adorable girl
- My daughter is a young Vietnamese adorable girl.

- My daughter is a Vietnamese young adorable tall girl.
- …
Ở ví dụ trên ta thấy có 4 tính từ:
- adorable: đáng yêu Thuộc nhóm O – Opinion
- Vietnamese: người Việt Nam Thuộc nhóm O - Origin
- young: trẻ Thuộc nhóm A - Age
- tall: cao Thuộc nhóm S – Size

 Opinion – Size – Age – Origin nên ta sắp xếp theo thứ tự như sau: “adorable – tall – young –
Vietnamese”

Các tính từ thường có các hậu tố (đuôi từ) như sau:

Example
- “able” affordable, countable, readable, comfortable, capable, considerable.…
- “ous” dangerous, humorous, poisonous, enormous, fabulous, famous…
- “ive” attractive, decisive, positive, negative, intensive, representative, passive, relative….
- “ful” stressful, powerful, peaceful, harmful, beautiful, awful, painful, helpful…
- “less” useless, homeless, worthless, hopeless, thoughtless, timeless, faithless….
- “ly” friendly, lovely, costly, daily…
- “y” rainy, windy, snowy, sandy, foggy, fatty, empty, pretty, crazy…
- “al” international, internal, professional, environmental, original, professional...
- “ed” excited, interested, bored, confused, surprised, worried, tired….
 - “ing” interesting, exciting, boring, suprising, worrying….
- “ible” possible, flexible, responsible, terrible, invincible, edible…
- “ent” intelligent, independent, ancient, patient, confident, dependent, different…
- “ant” important, significant, pleasant, brilliant, elegant, tolerant, distant…
- “ic” economic, basic, specific, automatic, classic, plastic, scientific, fantastic....
EXERCISE:
Put the adjectives and nouns (if any) in brackets in the correct order.
Question 1: My father would like to buy a (round/blue/dinning/big) ______________table for my
grandparents' house.
Question 2: Does Julie need that (wooden/small/square ______________ chair?
Question 3: What is this (red/triangular/feather) ______________ thing?
Question 4: Did you notice the brand of that (black/beatiful/big) ______________ car?
Question 5: My younger sister can take care of your (Persian/naughty/black) ______________cat when you
are not at home.
Question 6: This (wooden/long/new/rectangular) ______________scarf, which belongs to my brother, has
just been given to him for two days.
Question 7: Press this (iron/red/round) ______________button never!
Question 8: My grandmother will order some (English/light/nice) ______________dishes at 4P's restaurant
for our dinner tonight.
Question 9: She went home and sat on her (comfortable/old/wooden) ______________bed.
Question 10: My grandma just sold her (blue/bronze/old) ______________bicycle to get money to buy a new
motorbike.
Question 11: Yesterday was Nicky's birthday, he was given a (light brown/nice/leather)
______________jacket and a(n) (hexagonal/Swiss/emerald) ______________perfume bottle.
Question 12: When my brother was going to school yesterday morning, he saw a (beautiful/blonde/Russian/
young) ______________girl. She asked him how to get to Hoan Kiem Lake.
Question 13: Indiana University, one of the largest ones in the nation, is located in a (Midwestern/beautiful
/small) ______________town.
Question 14: Her father bought her a (yellow/beautiful/scarf/silk) ______________when he went on holiday
in Singapore last week.
Question 15: My daughter likes playing with a(n) (skipping/black/old/leather) ______________rope to get
lean in the early morning.
Question 16: Michael’s wife gave him a(n) (Japanese/expensive/blue) ______________bike as a birthday
present last year.
Question 17: I remember she wore a (cotton/white/Vietnamese) ______________dress to go out with her
boyfriend last week.
Question 18: There is a (large/round/beautiful/wooden) ______________table which was given to me by my
best friends on my housewarming
Question 19: Jennie has a (sheepskin/lovely/white/long) ______________- rug on the floor in her bedroom.
Question 20: They bought me a (plastic/orange/round) ______________toy to congratulate me on achieving
high scores in the last exam.
Question 21: The (British/brown/old) ______________passport was much easier than the new one.
Question 22: Jane really loves the (wooden/brown/nice) ______________jewelry box that her parents gave
her as a birthday present.
Question 23: They bought some (German/old/black/glasses) ______________when they were on holiday to
Switzerland.
Question 24: It is the (polyester/sleeping/blue) ______________bag which we often use when having
unexpected guests.
Question 25: Visitors to the local museum are mostly attracted by a(n) (iron/European/old/beautiful)
______________ rocking chair.
Question 26: It is a(n) (English/intelligent/young) ______________woman. I'm too lucky to work with her at
the office.
Question 27: When she came home, she gave me a (tiny/brown/delicious/round/cupcake) ______________ to
apologize to me for going home late at night.
Question 28: Their brother is not only a(n) (opera/Italian/well-known/talented) ______________singer but
also a distinguished painter.
Question 29: It was a (long/train/interesting) ______________journey with her boyfriend before they get
married.
Question 30: Yesterday, her husband gave her a(n) (old/valuable/Arabic) ______________ painting that he
bought when he went on a business trip.
Question 31: I had a (red/Polish/beautiful/big/new) ______________bag. It was given by my mother at my
graduation ceremony last week.
Question 32: At first sight I met her, I was impressed with her (round/big/black/eyes/adorable)
______________immediately.
Question 33: My mom and I often go home on (shopping/new/narrow/crowded) ______________street.
Question 34: The only thing he bought for his younger brother on his trip to France was a (new/French/small/
masculine) ______________watch.
Question 35: Lara goes to a(n) (large/ancient/Buddhist/great) ______________temple every week.
Question 36: Yesterday my mother bought me and my sister-in-law some (Brazilian/cotton/cute/hats)
______________. We really like to put on them.
Question 37: My father has sold a (racing/modern/Vietnamese) ______________car for a rich businesswoman
in his neighborhood.
Question 38: Look at that (wooden/sailing/huge) ______________ship! It is one of the biggest ships in the
world.
Question 39: There’s a (small/reading/round) ______________lamp in his room for him to read books every
single day.
Question 40: Where’s that (long/pink/silk/lovely) ______________dress that I gave you?
Question 41: At the corner of his bedroom is a(n) (Indian/old/beautiful) ______________lamp.
Question 42: My grandparents invited that (old/short/distinguished) ______________lady to have dinner with
our family.
Question 43: She has a lot of friends, but her best friend is Linda, a (graceful/Jewish/tall)
______________girl.
Question 44: My sister has lots of (triangle/new/pink/big) ______________bags, but she always wants to buy
the new one.
Question 45: Last night, my classmates and I went to a (Chinese/spacious/luxurious)
______________restaurant.