ADJECTIVES ORDES

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Let’s learn about the adjectives order:

Sometimes we use two or more adjectives together:

- My parents live in a nice new house

- A dirty old black cat is wandering the streets

A / 'OPINION' ADJECTIVES  

    Adjectives like nice and dirty are opinion adjectives. They tell us what you think about somebody or something.

    Opinion adjectives usually go before fact adjectives

B /   'FACT' ADJECTIVES

      Adjectives like new, old, black are fact adjectives. They give us factual information about, age and colour.

      Sometimes we use two or more fact adjectives. Very often, we put fact adjectives in this order :

Examples : 

-  An interesting (opinion ) old (2)  book

-  An ugly (opinion) pink (4 ) plastic (6) ornament 

-  A nice (opinion) small (1) African (5) drum

-  A delicious (opinion) round (3) chocolate (6) cake

-  A pair of smart( opinion) brown  (4) leather (6) boots

-  A beautiful (opinion) small (1) white (4) Chinese (5 ) computer

-  A nice (opinion) big (1) old (2) square (3) white (4) French (5) china (6) plate *

  When there are two colour adjectives, we use and:

-  A big green and yellow hat

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Before the adjectives you will normally have the Determiner.

Determiner: The determiner tells us if the noun is singular or plural, definite or indefinite

• a, an, the, my, your, four, those, some etc

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Opinion: Explains what we think about something. This is usually our opinion, attitude or observations. These adjectives almost always come before all other adjectives.

• beautiful, boring, stupid, delicious, useful, lovely, comfortable

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Size: Tells us how big or small something is.

• big, small, tall, huge, tiny

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Shape / Weight / Length: Tells about the shape of something or how long or short it is. It can also refer to the weight of someone or something.

• round, square, circular, skinny, fat, heavy, straight, long, short.

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Condition: Tells us the general condition or state of something

• broken, cold, hot, wet, hungry, rich, easy, difficult, dirty

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Age: Tells us how old someone or something is.

• old, young, new, ancient, antique

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Colour: The colour or approximate colour of something.

• green, white, blue, reddish, purple

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Origin: Tells us where something is from.

• American, British, Italian, eastern, Australian, Chilean

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Material: What is the thing made of or constructed of?

• gold, wooden, silk, paper, synthetic, cotton, woollen

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Purpose/Qualifier/Use: What is it for? These adjectives often end in –ing.

• sleeping (bag), gardening (gloves), shopping (bag), wedding (dress)

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The thing we are talking about.

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1) At home there is a __________________ table in the dining room.
[ ]beautiful square wooden
[ ]beautiful wooden square
[ ]wooden beautiful square

2) I was offered __________________ ring by my husband.
[ ]a gold  unusual
[ ]an unusual gold

3) My grandmother has knitted __________________ pullover for me.
[ ]a new nice woollen
[ ]a nice new woollen
[ ]a woollen new nice

4) I saw __________________ movie with friends at home.
[ ]an interesting old American
[ ]An old American interesting
[ ]An American old interesting

5) It may rain ! There are __________________ clouds floating in the air.
[ ]black big
[ ]big black

6) It was such __________________ day that we decided to go out for a walk.
[ ]a sunny lovely
[ ]a lovely sunny

7) My daughter has __________________ hair.
[ ]long beautiful black
[ ]black long beautiful
[ ]beautiful long black

8) Last week, I visited __________________ village in a remote place.
[ ]an old lovely little
[ ]a lovely little old
[ ]a little lovely old

9) The gallery exhibited mainly __________________ paintings.
[ ]French old strange
[ ]old strange French
[ ]strange old French

10) John was given __________________ kitten by his sister
[ ]a black little adorable
[ ]an adorable little black
[ ]a little black adorable

11) It started to rain so I opened __________________ umbrella
[ ]a red and yellow enormous
[ ]an enormous red and yellow
[ ]an enormous red yellow

12) I came into a __________________ house built in 1860
[ ]old picturesque
[ ]picturesque old

13) A __________________ was parked opposite my house.
[ ]shiny new Italian sports car
[ ]  new Italian shiny sports car
[ ]  shiny Italian new sports car

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