The document provides an overview of adjectives, including their types, order, and position in sentences. It outlines the proper sequence for multiple adjectives before nouns, highlighting categories such as opinion, size, and color. The document also includes examples and exercises to reinforce the correct usage of adjectives.

1. Adjective
Types, Order and position of Adjective

2. Adjectives
• Adjectives are one of the four major word classes, along with nouns, verbs
and adverbs. Examples of adjectives are: big, small, blue, old, rich and nice.
They give us more information about people, animals or things represented
by nouns and pronouns:
That’s a big house.
Look at the grey horse.
Some dogs have long tails.
• I love that really big old green antique car that always parked at the
end of the street.

3. Order of
adjectives:
When more than one
adjective comes before a
noun, the adjectives are
normally in a particular
order.Adjectives which
describe opinions or
attitudes (e.g. amazing)
usually come first, before
more neutral, factual ones
(e.g. red):
Order Relating to Examples
1 Opinion unusual, lovely, beautiful
2 Size big, small, tall
3 physical quality thin, rough, untidy
4 Shape round, square,
rectangular
5 Age young, old, youthful
6 Colour blue, red, pink
7 Origin Dutch, Japanese,
Turkish
8 Material metal, wood, plastic
9 Type general-purpose, four-
sided, U-shaped
10 Purpose cleaning, hammering,
cooking

4. Position of adjectives
• Adjectives usually go before the nouns they modify.
• She is a nice girl. (Here the adjective nice modifies the noun girl and
goes before it.)
• He is an intelligent boy.
• That was a clever idea.

5. When two or more adjectives come before a
noun, they are usually separated by commas.
• A large, round table
• A short, fair, pretty girl
• (Note that we do not put a comma after the last
adjective in the series.)

6. When the last two are adjectives of color,
they are usually separated by and.
• A black and white cow (NOT black white cow)
• Red and blue socks
• The house is green and red.
• We live in the big green, white and red house at the end of the
street.
• My friend lost a red, black and white watch.

7. When two or more adjectives come in the
predicative position, we use and between the
last two.
• It was hot and sultry.
• The boy was handsome, smart and polite.
• The clouds looked white and fluffy.

8. Order of adjectives – examples
Determiner
Quantity
or
number
Quality
or
opinion
Size Age Shape Color
Proper
adjective
Purpose
or
qualifier
Noun
A beautiful old Italian sports car
The three beautiful little gold plates
An amazing
heart-
shaped
red and
white
sofa

9. examples:
• I love that beautiful old big green antique car that always parked at the
end of the street. [quality – age – size – color – proper adjective]
• My sister has a big beautiful tan and white bulldog. [size – quality –
color – color]
• A wonderful old Italian clock. [opinion – age – origin]
• A big square blue box. [dimension – shape – color]
• A disgusting pink plastic ornament. [opinion – color – material]
• Some slim new French trousers. [dimension – age – origin]

10.  1. Choose the best answer for each sentence.
 The house is __________________.
 large and white
 white and large
 large white
 Answers: A – large and white
 They live in a __________________ house.
 large and white
 white and large
 large white
 Answers: – large white

11.  Our work uniform consists of black pants, black shoes, and a
________________ shirt.
 yellow baggy big polo
 big baggy yellow polo
 baggy yellow big polo
 Answers: retriever B – big baggy yellow polo
 I’ve been spending a lot of time in antique shops looking for the perfect
_______________ clock.
 little silver Italian cuckoo
 little Italian silver cuckoo
 silver little Italian cuckoo
 Answers: little silver Italian cuckoo

12.  Which sentence uses the correct order of adjectives?
 We took a ride on a blue, old Chinese bus.
 We took a ride on a Chinese, old, blue bus.
 We took a ride on an old, blue Chinese bus.
 Answer: C
 Which sentence uses the correct order of adjectives?
 I’d like three good reasons why you don’t like spinach.
 I’d like a good three reasons why you don’t like spinach.
 I’d like good reasons three why you don’t like spinach.
 Answer: A

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types
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