Adjective Order - Exercises Article/ Number the two a

Opinion Nice Ugly

Opinion Size Age Shape Colour Origin Material Purpose Noun

silly huge small
Size Small Big Age Old New

young round red

Shape Square Circular

English metal

man bowls sleeping bag

Colour Black Blue

Material Plastic Cotton

Origin British American

Purpose Racing Running

Choose the correct adjective order.

Q1 - I bought a pair of _____ shoes. black leather leather black Q2 - It was a ____ car. red fast fast red Q3 - It's a ____ building. big round round big Q4 - I bought ____ knife. a Swiss army an army Swiss Q5 - It's ____ film. a beautiful old an old beautiful Q6 - He's ____ man. an unfriendly rich a rich unfriendly Q7 - It's ____ phone. a mobile expensive an expensive mobile
1. 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 2. Which is the correct order? a carving steel new knife a new steel carving knife

Q8 - It's ____ village. an old lovely a lovely old Q9 - The ____ visitors were Japanese. two last last two Q10 - He's got ____ eyes. blue big big blue Q11 - It's a ____ house. nice new new nice Q12 - It's ____ airline. a popular American an American popular Q13 - It's ____ company a family old an old family Q14 - It's a ____ restaurant. cheap good good cheap
a steel new carving knife a new carving steel knife 3. Which is the correct order? a beautiful blue sailing boat a blue beautiful sailing boat a sailing beautiful blue boat a blue sailing beautiful boat

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an old wooden square table 4. Which is the correct order?

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a square wooden old table an old square wooden table a wooden old square table 5. Which is the correct order? an new French exciting band a French new exciting band an exciting French new band an exciting new French band 6. Which is the correct order? a red big plastic hat a big red plastic hat a plastic big red hat a bit plastic red hat 7. Which is the correct order? a small Japanese serving bowl a Japanese small serving bowl a small serving Japanese bowl a serving small Japanese bowl 8. Which is the correct order? a cotton dirty old tie a dirty cotton old tie an old cotton dirty tie a dirty old cotton tie

Complete the following sentences using the correct adjective order. Use commas between the adjectives if you have three or more.

Maria has ______ ________ _________ ________ hair. black, beautiful, thick I saw the _______ ________ ________ table this morning. wooden, ugliest, round She looks so elegant in her ________ _______ ________ coat. wool, Italian, long That is the _________ ________ _________ sculpture in this museum. metal, most unusual, modern They bought a lot of ________ ________ ________ furniture on the trip. Indian, antique, interesting

1. At home there is a __________________table in the dining room. (beautiful, wooden, square) 2. I was offered_____________ring by my husband. (gold, a/n, unusual) 3. My grandmother has knitted______________sweater for me. (woolen, new, nice, a) 4. I saw____________movie with friends at home. (a/n, American, old, interesting) 5. It may rain ! There are_____________clouds floating in the air. (black, big, rain, many) 6. It was such_____________day that we decided to go out for a walk. (sunny, lovely, cool, a) 7. My daughter has_______________hair. (black, long, beautiful) 8. Last week, I visited____________village in a remote place. (little, charming, a/n, old) 9. The gallery exhibited mainly______________paintings. (old, French, strange) 10. John was given________________kitten by his sister. (little, a/n, adorable, black) 11. It started to rain so I opened________________umbrella. (red and yellow, a/n, enormous) 12. I inherited _____________house built in 1860. (old, picturesque, a/n) 13. _______________car was parked opposite my house. (Italian, blue, sleek, a/n)

Rewrite the following phrases using the correct adjective order. Use commas between the adjectives if you have three or more adjectives.
1 warm beach a sandy beautiful

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2 film handsome American a/n actor 3 a/n teacher intelligent part-time likeable 4 balloon A plastic red hot-air huge 5 A basement apartment fully-furnished lovely 6 A dog black pedigree friendly 7 strange small A box square metal 8 bag. beautiful A travel leather old

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

beautiful Japanese car a/n old big wooden rectangular tables Some small cake A round delicious strong rapper black French short the young watch gold my modern valuable carpet new Chinese charming red their small old black big one Canadian box small necklace silver charming a/n proverb Chinese interesting short a/n

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