English Enrichment Programme

(Online: 21st to 31str September, 2020)

H.M. Patel Institute of English Training and

Research, Vallabh Vidyanagar
&
Institute of Language Teaching, Rajkot

Unit: Common Errors

Sub-unit: Order of Adjectives

Dr. Maunas Thaker

HMPIETR, Vallabh Vidyanagar 1
 I am sure, you are already aware of describing
words.
Please go through the video

Video Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju2q6SnZsJo
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 Traditionally we know much about
the Adjective
• A word used with noun to describe or point out, the
person, animal, place or thing which the noun names,
or to tell the number or quantity, is called an adjective.
• Students know the (traditional) types of Adjective. i.e.
• Adjective of Quality: large, nice, honest, foolish,
english, round, red, Indian etc.
• Adjective of Quantity: some, much, little, enough, all,
no, any, great, half, whole, sufficient etc.
• Numeral Adjective etc. few, five, no, all, much, all,
some, most, several, first, etc.
• So, there are many types of adjectives.

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 INTRODUCTION
• Conventionally we learn the above mentioned types of
adjectives (Quantitative, Qualitative etc.). But we commit
mistakes when many different types of adjectives are used
in a sentence. e.g.‘Mohan had an old nice book.’: What
mistake is committed in this sentence?
Check out some more sentences.
• My black new bicycle is stolen.- new black bicycle.
• Harish bought an old nice Gujarati book. -nice old Gujarati book.
• I have a red round rubber ball.-round red rubber ball.
We often make mistakes in placing adjectives at proper
place. So it is necessary to learn the correct order or
sequence of the adjectives to be written in a sentence. Let
us ldiscuss then about the order of adjectives.

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 PRESENTATION OF THE CONTENT MATERIAL:

• Adjectives are of following types. These adjectives are placed in a

sentence in the order given bellow. “OPSHACOM”
• 1.Opinion: lazy, good, bad, nice, fine, simple, modern, ordinary,
extraordinary, etc.
• 2.Shape: round, square, rectangular, circle, triangle,
• 3. Age:new, novel, old, latest, aged, fresh, stale, musty, decayed, recent
etc.
• 4.Colour:White, black, Red, Blue, Brown, Violet, Pink, Orange,
Yellow.
• 5. Origin: Indian. American, Gujarati, Australian, British, English,
Spanish, etc.
• 6. Material: wooden, iron., metal, silver, golden, plastic, paper, air,
liquid, rubber Eg. I have a nice square old brown Indian wooden table.
• She has a black and white T.V.( adjectives of same type are joined by
‘and’)

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 ORDER OF ADJECTIVES

Mention the parts of speech used in the

following sentence

• Neha has worn a beautiful pink sari today.

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 ORDER OF ADJECTIVES

• Mohan had an old nice book.

• Mohan had a nice old book

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 ORDER OF ADJECTIVES

• 1. My black new bicycle is stolen.

• 2. Harish bought an old nice Gujarati book.

• 3. I have a red round rubber ball.

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 ORDER OF ADJECTIVES

• 1. My new black bicycle is stolen.

• 2. Harish bought a nice old Gujarati book.

• 3. I have a round red rubber ball.

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 ORDER OF ADJECTIVES

I bought a nice round

old brown Indian
wooden table.

Made
Madeinin
India
India
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 ORDER OF ADJECTIVES

OP SH A C O M
This is an acronym to remember the order
OP - OPINION
SH - SHAPE
A - AGE
C - ORIGIN
O - COLOUR
M - MATERIAL
Just add determiners on the top and purpose at the bottom
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Order relating to examples
1 Determiners: A, An, The>>> One, two,..fifth
Articles, Numbers

2 opinion unusual, lovely, beautiful

3 size big, small, tall

4 physical quality thin, rough, untidy

5 shape round, square, rectangular

6 age young, old, youthful

7 colour blue, red, pink

8 origin Dutch, Japanese, Turkish

9 material metal, wood, plastic

10 type general-purpose, four-sided, U-shaped

11 purpose cleaning, hammering, cooking 14

What do you see in the
following slides?

Answer using more than one

adjectives.

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EVALUATION

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 Try it!
Prepare one sentence, having more
than one adjectives in sequence,
based on the pictures shown below.

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 A very old red Ford pick-up truck. Some
might call it "ugly" too!

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Image Credit
: https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/what-is-the-word-order-of-adjectives-/4775294.html#:~:text=The%20order%20of%20cumulative%20adjectives,%2C%20origin%2C%20material%20and%20purpose.
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 Take the online test to check
your progress.
Click on the link to take the test:

• https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQ
LSeiVxzCYdWiz6oMqqcCL-
u8UPcvaQ20uMCkLiwTCXTH07FtPQ/vie
wform

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Thank You

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuWhaA7P22Y
(Just enjoy this song on Order of Adjectives !!)

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 Acknowledgement
• https://www.ef.com/wwen/english-resources/english-grammar/using-adjectives-english/
• https://www.fluentu.com/english/
• https://www.fluentu.com/blog/english/english-adjectives/
• https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/what-is-the-word-order-of-
adjectives-/4775294.html#:~:text=The%20order%20of%20cumulative%20adjectives,%2C
%20origin%2C%20material%20and%20purpose.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju2q6SnZsJo ( Song Introducing Adjectives)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuWhaA7P22Y (Order of Adjectives song)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSepkJV91mk
• https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/english-grammar-reference/adjective-order
• https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/adjectives-order
• https://www.gingersoftware.com/content/grammar-rules/adjectives/order-of-adjectives/

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