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Article/
Number
Opinion Size Age Shape Colour Origin Material Purpose Noun
the silly young English man
two huge round metal bowls
a small red sleeping bag
Opinion Size Age Shape Colour Material Origin Purpose
Nice Small Old Square Black Plastic British Racing
Ugly Big New Circular Blue Cotton American 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
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.
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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
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
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
4. Which is the correct order?
an old wooden square table
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,
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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
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. beautiful Japanese car a/n old
2. big wooden rectangular tables Some
3. small cake A round delicious
4. strong rapper black French short the young
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5. watch gold my modern valuable
6. carpet new Chinese charming red their small
7. old black big one Canadian box
8. small necklace silver charming a/n
9. proverb Chinese interesting short a/n
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