The document discusses the basic types of adjectives: 1. Opinion adjectives express a personal view, size adjectives describe dimensions, and age adjectives indicate how old or young something is. 2. Other types include shape, color, origin, material, and purpose adjectives, which characterize the form, hue, geographical point of origin, material composition, and intended use of nouns. 3. Examples are given of common adjective orderings and specific adjectives belonging to each category.

1. 1. The basic types of adjectives
An opinion adjective explains what you think about something
Opinion (other people may not agree with you).
For example: silly, beautiful, horrible, difficult
A size adjective, of course, tells you how big or small something
Size is.
For example: large, tiny, enormous, little
An age adjective tells you how young or old something or
Age someone is.
For example: ancient, new, young, old
A shape adjective describes the shape of something.
Shape
For example: square, round, flat, rectangular
A colour adjective, of course, describes the colour of something.
Colour
For example: blue, pink, reddish, grey
An origin adjective describes where something comes from.
Origin
For example: French, lunar, American, eastern, Greek
A material adjective describes what something is made from.
Material
For example: wooden, metal, cotton, paper
A purpose adjective describes what something is used for. These
adjectives often end with “-ing”.
Purpose
For example: sleeping (as in “sleeping bag”), roasting (as in
“roasting tin”)
2. Some examples of adjective order
Opinion Size Age Shape Colour Origin Material Purpose
a silly young English man
a huge round metal bowl
a small red sleeping bag