The document provides information on the correct order of adjectives in English. It lists the basic types of adjectives and the order they should be used in, which is: opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, purpose. It then provides examples applying this order of adjectives to describe different nouns like a car, teacher, clock, chair, etc. It tests the reader to reorder adjectives correctly based on the rules given.

1. Adjective Order #1
Remember adjectives go in this order:
Number Opinion Size Age Size Color Origin Materia
l Purpose
Choose the correct adjective to fill in the blank.
1. Are we going to use the
silver silver
plates tonight?
2. The
young red
fox lives in the forest.
3. We saw a
great new
movie the other day.
4. This is going to be a
difficult new
challenge.
5. Is that the
new blue
dress that you bought?
6. The
old American
man sat next to me.
7. Here are the
beautiful w ool
sweaters that I told you about.
8. What a
cute little
boy!
9. He likes to wear
ugly round
hats.
10. Give me the
brow n paper
bag.

2. Choose the correct answer
1. a(n) _____ _____ _____ lady
American old rich
old rich American
rich old American
2. a _____ _____ _____ spoon
brown soup wooden
brown wooden soup
wooden brown soup
3. a(n) _____ _____ _____ dress
expensive pink summer
summer expensive pink
pink expensive summer
4. a(n) _____ _____ _____ book
boring old science
old boring science
boring science old
5. a _____ _____ _____ scarf
Chinese pretty silk
pretty silk Chinese
pretty Chinese silk
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El orden de los adjetivos descriptivos
1. Which is correct?
A. ? a lovely glass 19th century vase
B. :-) a lovely 19th century glass vase
2. Which is correct?
A. :-) an antique silver sugar pot
B. ? an antique sugar silver pot
3. Which is correct?
A. ? several Thai valuable postage stamps
B. :-) several valuable Thai postage stamps
4. Which is correct?
A. :-) four red metal kitchen stools
B. ? four metal red kitchen stools
5. Which is correct?
A. :-) an enormous rectangular brick house
B. ? a rectangular enormous brick house

4. 6. Which is correct?
A. ? a German brown leather bag
B. :-) a brown German leather bag
7. Which is correct?
A. ? a wonderful wollen grey sweater
B. :-) a wonderful grey wollen sweater
8. Which is correct?
A. :-) a large rosewood dining table
B. ? a rosewood large dining table
9. Which is correct?
A. ? curly long dark brown hair
B. :-) long curly dark brown hair
10. Which is correct?
A. ? lovely small satin Italian dancing shoes
B. :-) lovely small Italian satin dancing shoes
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5. Descriptive adjective constructions
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1. reading / yellow / round / lamp
a round yellow reading lamp
2. German / rare / silver / car
a rare silver German car
3. wooden / huge /sailing /boat
a huge wooden sailing boat
4. experienced / old / English / teacher
an experienced old English teacher
5. coffee / French / china / pot
a French china coffee pot
6. table / red / square / metal
a square red metal table
7. exiciting / British / new / band
an exciting new British band
8. tall / young / handsome / lawyer
a handsome tall young lawyer
9. big / plastic / red / bag
a big red plastic bag
10. silk / trendy / tie / old
a trendy old silk tie
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6. ONLINE ENGLISH GRAMMAR QUIZ
topic: ADJECTIVES - Adjective order in English 4 | level: Advanced
HERE ARE YOUR RESULTS:
You scored 10 out of 10
Sometimes you need to use two or more adjectives to describe something or someone. Part
of becoming fluent in English is knowing which order to use these adjectives in. Choose the
most natural-sounding response:
1. He was wearing a ________ shirt.
dirty old flannel
flannel old dirty
old dirty flannel
2. Pass me the ________ cups.
plastic big blue
big blue plastic
big plastic blue
3. All the girls fell in love with the
________ teacher.
handsome new American
American new handsome
new handsome American
4. I used to drive ________ car.
a blue old German
an old German blue
an old blue German
5. He recently married a ________
woman.
young beautiful Greek
beautiful young Greek
beautiful Greek young
6. This is a ________ movie.
new Italian wonderful
wonderful Italian new
wonderful new Italian
7. She is a ________ supermodel.
beautiful slim Brazilian
Brazilian beautiful slim
slim Brazilian beautiful
8. It's in the ________ container.
large blue metal
blue large metal
blue metal large
9. He sat behind a ________ desk.
big wooden brown
big brown wooden
wooden big brown
10. She gave him a ________ vase.
small Egyptian black
black Egyptian small
small black Egyptian
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7. Order of ADJECTIVES
Basic types of adjectives and the correct order for using them.
1. Put the adjectives in order.
A car. A teacher. A clock. An chair.
Italian / sports /
fantastic
French / nice / old alarm / red / small old / rocking / wooden
OPINION SIZE AGE SHAPE COLOUR ORIGIN MATERIAL PURPOSE
What do you
think about
something?
How big or
small is it?
How old or
young
someone or
something is?
What is the
shape?
What colour is it? Where is it
from?
What is it made
of?
What is it used
for?
pretty, ugly,
silly, smart,
easy, fun...
small, tiny,
large,
enormous,
big...
old, young,
adolescent,
new,
ancient...
square,
triangular,
irregular,
flat, round...
red, blue,
magenta,
pinkish...
British,
Chinese,
French,
Brazilian,
western,
lunar...
silver, gold,
copper, wood,
plastic, cotton...
racing (car),
football (field)
frying (pan)

8. An bowl. A jacket. A boat. grapes.
African / interesting / old black / leather / smart red / sailing / beautiful Chilean / delicious / green
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