The document provides guidance on correcting incorrect use of adjectives in sentences and lists general rules for adjective order and position: 1) It provides corrections for 5 sentences that incorrectly use adjectives. 2) Adjectives typically precede nouns and follow linking verbs like "be". Multiple adjectives linked with "and". 3) There is a general order of adjectives that is typically followed: opinion, size, age, color, origin, material.

1. REVISION EXERCISES ADJECTIVES P. Mas Meneses

2. Correct the sentences given below. They are ALL wrong. She’s the actress most famous in my country. She is a pretty and little girl. She fell in love with a tall and dark and handsom stranger. He has taller grown since I saw him last. A short and fat man with long and dark hair was the only person in the room

3. Adjectives Position Before a noun // As complement after verb To BE and other verbs (feel, seem, look, etc.) More than 1 adjective: Before a noun: we use , only if the combination is not usual. He’s a nice little man (common) She is a shy, secretive woman (not usual) As a complement after be (others): AND. She seems charming and intelligent. We were cold, wet and tired.

4. Adjectives Order It depends on the situation but…. There is an order of adjectives that native speakers of English normally follow : Opinion: He’s a nice little man Appearance (size, shape, condition): A large round ball Age: An intelligent young man Colour: A green cotton dress Origin: A German car factory Material: Aunt Betty wants a square, gray, stone coffee table .

5. Adjectives General rules: Ordinal-Cardinal: the first hundred pages. Size and Shape adjs go at the beginning : a short new poem We need some small brown buttons. Compound adjectives of physical appearance go before age adjectives: A tall long-haired young girl.