Adjective order

ADJECTIVE ADJECTIVE ORDERORDER

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The basic types of adjectivesThe basic types of adjectives An An opinionopinion adjective explains what you think about adjective explains what you think about

something (other people may not agree with you). something (other people may not agree with you). Examples:Examples:silly, beautiful, horrible, difficultsilly, beautiful, horrible, difficult Size Size

A A sizesize adjective, of course, tells you how big or small adjective, of course, tells you how big or small something is. something is. Examples:Examples:large, tiny, enormous, littlelarge, tiny, enormous, little Age Age

An An ageage adjective tells you how young or old something adjective tells you how young or old something or someone is. or someone is. Examples:Examples:ancient, new, young, oldancient, new, young, old

María Irene Albers de UrriolaMA in Applied Linguistics USBSpecialist in Computer Technology in Education UC

The basic types of adjectives (2)The basic types of adjectives (2)

A A shapeshape adjective describes the shape of adjective describes the shape of something. Examples:something. Examples:square, round, flat, rectangularsquare, round, flat, rectangular Color Color

A A colorcolor adjective, of course, describes the color of adjective, of course, describes the color of something. Examples:something. Examples:blue, pink, reddish, greyblue, pink, reddish, grey Origin Origin

An An originorigin adjective describes where something adjective describes where something comes from. Examples:comes from. Examples:


A A materialmaterial adjective describes what something is adjective describes what something is made from. Examples:made from. Examples:wooden, metal, cotton, paperwooden, metal, cotton, paper Purpose Purpose

A A purposepurpose adjective describes what something is adjective describes what something is used for. These adjectives often end with "-ing". used for. These adjectives often end with "-ing". Examples: Examples: sleeping (as in "sleeping bag"), roasting sleeping (as in "sleeping bag"), roasting (as in "roasting tin")(as in "roasting tin")



Some examples of adjective order

Opinion Size Age Shape Color Origin Material Purpose

a silly old English man

a huge round metal bowl

a small red sleeping bag


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ExercisesExercises

Which is the correct order?

A small Canadian thin lady

A Canadian small thin lady

A small thin Canadian lady

A thin small Canadian lady


ExercisesExercisesWhich is the correct order?

a carving steel new knife

a new steel carving knife

a steel new carving knife

a new carving steel knife



ExercisesExercisesUse the information given in the previous slides to describe the picture.Use the information given in the previous slides to describe the picture.

Adjective order

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