Adjective Word Order
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We use adjective to modify nouns. But, sometimes we use use two or more adjectives together to modify one noun. In this case, we have to know which adjective comes first and which one comes later. Let's see the following examples.- Don lives in a nice new house.
- There were four beautiful small square wooden chair in the living room.
Opinion And Fact Adjectives
Opinion Adjectives | Fact Adjectives | Noun | |
---|---|---|---|
a a an a | nice delicious intelligent beautiful | sunny hot young large square wooden | day chili sauce man chair |
Fact Adjective Order
Size | Age | Color | Origin | Material | Noun | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
a a a an a | tall big small large | young old new | brown blue white | Norwegian | plastic wooden cotton | man eyes bag table song shirt |
Adjectives of Size, Length, Shape, And Width
- a large round table
- a short fat girl
- a long winding road
- a small new house
Adjective Word Order Exercise
Put the adjectives in the bracket into the correct position. Example : a beautiful chair (wooden round)
You write : a beautiful round wooden chair
a good-looking man ( young ) .........
a sunny day ( lovely ) .........
a beautiful ring ( gold ) .........
an old man ( ugly ) .......
a modern house ( expensive ) ......
a red car ( old/little ) .....
long hair ( dark/beautiful )....
a metal box ( red / big ) .....
an English film ( old ) .......
a beautiful wife ( young/Russian ) .....
Answer
a good-looking man ( young ) 👉 a good-looking young man
a sunny day ( lovely ) ......... 👉 a lovely sunny day
a beautiful ring ( gold ) ......... 👉 a beautiful gold ring
an old man ( ugly ) ....... 👉 an ugly old man
a modern house ( expensive ) ...... 👉 an expensive modern house
a red car ( old/little ) ..... 👉 a little old red car
long hair ( dark/beautiful ).... 👉 beautiful long dark hair
a metal box ( red / big ) ..... 👉 a big red metal box
an English film ( old ) ....... 👉 an old English film
a beautiful wife ( young/Russian ) ….. 👉 a beautiful young Russian wife
a good-looking man ( young ) 👉 a good-looking young man
a sunny day ( lovely ) ......... 👉 a lovely sunny day
a beautiful ring ( gold ) ......... 👉 a beautiful gold ring
an old man ( ugly ) ....... 👉 an ugly old man
a modern house ( expensive ) ...... 👉 an expensive modern house
a red car ( old/little ) ..... 👉 a little old red car
long hair ( dark/beautiful ).... 👉 beautiful long dark hair
a metal box ( red / big ) ..... 👉 a big red metal box
an English film ( old ) ....... 👉 an old English film
a beautiful wife ( young/Russian ) ….. 👉 a beautiful young Russian wife
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