Qualified Adjectives

Listen to the descriptions of the following people.

1. I am a young girl. I am thin and tall. My eyes are blue. I have
got blonde hair, it is straight. I am pretty and friendly.
2. I am a young boy. I am short and plumb. I have got black
eyes. I have got short and black hair, it is curly. I am an
intelligent, nice boy.
3. He is a strong man. He has got beautiful eyes. He is tall and
handsome but he is not friendly, he is a grumpy person.

A. Select a famous person and describe him or her. Look at the example.
She is a beautiful young woman. She has got long black hair. She is an actress. She is Mexican
but her house is in The United States. She is from Coatzacoalcos. Whos she?
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B. Underline the adjectives on the descriptions.

GRAMMAR
A adjectives in English are always placed before a noun they are modifying. Without any change,
the same adjective can modify a singular or plural noun, a feminine or a masculine one.
Example:

Masculine
Feminine

Singular
An old man
An old woman

Plural
Some old men
Some old women

Masculine
Feminine

A young child
A young girl

Some young children

Many girls you

Adjectives order
Generally speaking, value adjectives (which indicate personal opinion) come first, followed by
size, age, shape, colour, origin and material. Compound nouns are never separated.
The table below gives several examples of noun phrases with adjectives in this order.
Dete
rmin
er

Value

size

Age

Shape

Two
A

Colour

Black
priceles
s

Their

Nineteent
h-century
huge

One

Jane
s

pretty

his

charmin
g

leather

riding

Boots
Paintin
g

swimmin Pool
g

Old
tiny

Compou Noun
nd

Circular

Swedish
dirty

Materia
l

Impressionist

My
The

Origin

Lshaped

White

Examples.
a. They live in a beautiful old farmhouse.
b. She was wearing a superb black leather coat.
c. Hes got a huge Japanese tape-recorder.
d. Suddenly, round the corner came this great big black dog.

wooden

salad

Bowl

metal

garden

Seat

utility

Room

writing

desk

country

cottag
e

e. Have you been to the new Spanish firs restaurant yet?

Qualified Adjectives
Color

Examples
Mars is known as "the red planet".
John was wearing a blue uniform

Size/ measure

There was a huge tree in front of the house.

My grandfather is very tall.

Shape

The bridge was too narrow for the truck.

Circle is round.

Age/time

My new car is red.

They are studying ancient civilizations.
Your clothes are old-fashioned.

Weather

It was so foggy that I could not see anything.

Lets go to the beach. Its a sunny day.

Temperature

Im so cold. Im wearing gloves.

My coffee is hot to drink.

Texture

Your hair is too soft.

The cream is smooth.

Materials

Her wooden table is beautiful.

That plastic glass is dirty.

Religion

His parents are Catholic.

Most of people in Great Britain are Anglican.

Put the adjectives in brackets into order.

1. He gave us some bread. (brown; delicious; homemade)
2. A lady suddenly arrived. (Little; old; funny)
3. I bought a shirt. (silk; striped; blue and White)
4. He was smoking a cigar. (fat; revolting; Havana)
5. Ive got a racket. (new; tennis; red; metal)