This document provides a worksheet with exercises on the position and order of adverbial phrases, adjectives, and adverbs in sentences. It contains examples of sentences with adverbial phrases of manner, place, and time as well as examples ordering adjectives by opinion, size, age, shape, and origin. Students are asked to identify the correctly ordered sentences and complete sentences with adjectives in brackets. They are also asked to determine if example sentences are grammatically correct or incorrect.

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Worksheet 7
Position and order of adverbial phrases
Manner Place Time
Order of adjectives
Opinion Size Age Shape Colour Origin
1 Tick (✔) the correct sentence.
1 a Life developed on land quickly in the last million years.
b Life developed quickly on land in the last million years.
2 a Strange green creatures have recently been found on the moon.
b Green strange creatures have recently been found on the moon.
3 a It’s a fast new American aeroplane.
b It’s a new fast American aeroplane.
4 a It’s a beautiful yellow small fish.
b It’s a beautiful small yellow fish.
5 a Dinosaurs disappeared suddenly from Earth around 65 million years ago.
b Dinosaurs disappeared from Earth suddenly around 65 million years ago.
6 a Our submersible was a grey big round thing.
b Our submersible was a big round grey thing.
2 Complete the sentences with the adjectives in brackets.
1 The fish was an , , thing that looked like something out of a cartoon.
(orange, round, enormous)
2 It was an extremely , , , boat. (British, grey, old, ugly)
3 I had never seen such an , , animal. (amazing, colourful, small)
4 It was discovered by an , , explorer. (French, young, unknown)
5 The car was a , , , model. (comfortable, German, new, silver)
Position and order of adverbs and adjectives
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Worksheet 7
3 Are these sentences grammatically correct (✔) or incorrect (✘)? Write correct sentences.
1 Humans appeared suddenly in Africa about two million years ago.
2 It’s a square, huge, grey machine.
3 I’ve just seen a fantastic, tiny, blue fish.
4 She has a Spanish, lovely, old map.
5 The Earth rotates at the Equator most quickly.
6 It was quite a spacious, modern, French submersible.
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