Adjective order

1. FILE 2A: ADJECTIVE ORDER EXPLANATION AND EXERCISES

3. OPINION e.g : an interesting book, a boring lecture DIMENSION e.g: a big apple, a thin wallet AGE e.g: a new car, a modern building, an ancient ruin SHAPE e.g: a square box, an oval mask, a round ball COLOUR e.g: a pink hat, a blue book, a black coat ORIGIN e.g: some Italian shoes, a Canadian town, an American car MATERIAL e.g: a wooden box, a woolen sweater, a plastic toy

4. Here are some examples of nouns modified with three adjectives in the correct order based on the list above. Notice that the adjectives are not separated by commas. A wonderful old Italian clock . (opinion - age - origin) A big square blue box . (dimension - shape - color) A disgusting pink plastic ornament . (opinion - color - material) Some slim new French trousers . (dimension - age - origin)

6. book- interesting- small -Spanish

7. CORRECT An interesting small Spanish book Opinion- size- origin

10. picture- modern - ugly - rectangular

11. CORRECT An ugly modern rectangular picture opinion- age- shape

12. apple -ripe - green - delicious

13. CORRECT A delicious ripe green apple opinion- age - colour

14. suit- woolen - large - black

15. CORRECT a large black woollen suit size – colour- material

16. house- beautiful - modern - small

17. CORRECT a beautiful small modern house opinion- size – age

18. magazine- German - slender - strange

19. CORRECT a strange slender German magazine opinion- dimension – origin

20. cap- cotton - funny - green

21. CORRECT a funny green cotton cap opinion- colour-material