1. WORD ORDER ADJECTIVES IN A NOUN PHRASE When there are some adjectives qualifying a noun, we must follow the following rules to write them in the correct order. 1. 2. 3. Partitives: both, all, half, most of Determiners: Ordinal numbers: Cardinal numbers: 4. a, an, some, any, the first, last, second, third one, three, six riders to finish will win a great prize. first the six The first six
2. ADJECTIVES IN A NOUN PHRASE 5. Opinion: good, bad, nice, pretty, clever, fool 6. Size: big, tall, large, thick 7. Age or temperature: old, young, warm, freezing 8. Shape: flat, square, round, oval 9. Colour: pink, brown, red, yellow 10. Verb in participle: boiling, checked, rolling 11. Material: metal, wooden, gold, cotton 12. Origin or nationality: Greek, Martian, Spanish 13. Noun in apposition: university, football
3. ADJECTIVES IN A NOUN PHRASE Exercises long wavy blond nice My sister has nice long wavy blond hair. funny a wonderful Spanish Superlópez is superhero. a wonderful funny Spanish green the sports fast old Who has car parked over there? the fast old green sports
4. ADJECTIVES IN A NOUN PHRASE Exercises modern checked tight colourful I’ve just bought a tight modern colourful T-shirt. old British black and white Tom likes watching films. old black and white British red-haired all Irish twenty-four-year-old philology must enter this room. All twenty-four-year-old red-haired Irish philology a checked
