This document discusses two main kinds of adjectives used to describe places: demonstrative adjectives ("this", "that") and descriptive adjectives. Descriptive adjectives further qualify nouns with attributes like color, size, shape, age, texture, sound, and appearance. The document provides examples of ordering adjectives before a noun, typically following the order of determiner, opinion, size, quality, age, shape, color, and origin.

2. Kinds of adjectives
There are many kinds of adjectives.
However we are going to focus on two kinds of
adjectives highly used to describe places:
1. Demonstrative adjectives
2. Descriptive adjectives

3. Demonstrative adjectives
These type of adjectives respond to the question
“Which”
1. Singular: This, That
2. Plural: These, Those

4. Descriptive adjectives 1
These type of adjectives are used to qualify the noun.
 Color: Violet, turquoise, orange, purple, beige.
 Size: Big, large, small, tiny, heavy, light, thin, thick,
Shallow, deep.
 Shape: Round, square, oval, conical, rectangular,
triangular.
 Age: Old, young, new, modern, ancient, old-
fashioned, updated.

5. Descriptive adjectives 2
 Weather:
Rainy, stormy, sunny, windy,snowy, damp, dry, icy,fogg
y, overcast,
 Texture:
Hard, soft, rough, smooth, solid, liquid, sticky, slippery
, uneven, blunt
 Sound: Silent, noisy, quiet, deafening, melodic,shrill
 Appearance:
beautiful, ugly, clean, dirty, simple, complex, difficult,
easy, neat, messy

6. The order of adjectives
As a general rule, adjectives are usually placed in this
order:
DETERMINER | OPINION | SIZE | QUALITY | AGE |
SHAPE | COLOUR | PARTICIPLE FORMS | ORIGIN
| MATERIAL | TYPE | PURPOSE | NOUN

7. Description of places (example)
This is Saint Paul´s
Cathedral, a
beautiful, big, ancient,
baroque, English, religi
ous building.

8. Description of places (example)
That is Venice, an
interesting, romantic, big, colorful, European, ancien
t city.

9. Description of places (example)
That is Santa Marta snow mountain, an
atractive, enormous, green and white, Colombian
landmark