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Supplementary Material 023

USING ADJECTIVES CORRECTLY(Supplementary Material from GLMupwards)

We can describe people, places and things by using adjectives. In English we place them before the nouns

and their order depends on the meaning of the adjective. Nevertheless, to make it easier we have preparedthe following diagram for you:

QUALITY- SIZE- AGE - SHAPE - COLOR - ORIGIN - MATERIAL- PURPOSE +NOUN

Examples: Brown, Spanish, leather, riding boots.

A nice, oval, wooden, picture frame.A long, new, tight dress.

EXERCISE 1. Change the order of the following words to create correct sentences.

1. Is /it /a day/ hot.

2. It has been /a war/ long/ bloody.

3. Those are/ books/ amusing/ short.

4. What a /silk/ blouse /beautiful!

5. I love/ your /gold/ new /watch!

6. It was /a /conversation /friendly.

7. A/ letter /short/ lovely.

8. It is a/ CD player/ new/ great!

9. It is a /procedure/ expensive/ long.

10. Porshes are/ cars/fast/ luxurious.

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Supplementary Material 023EXERCISE 2. The following passage has adjective order mistakes.

Read it carefully and rewrite the sentences correctly.

Into the Mouth of the Volcano

In 1986 Kevin Johnson, an American, young, important man arrived at Sumatra, a big, beautiful island in

Indonesia, to climb one of the active, biggest volcanoes.

As soon as he got there he tried to find a good, qualified guide, but unfortunately, the only guide was out of

town. Although it was a dangerous, difficult climb, Kevin decided to go up alone. Before he left, Kevin said

good bye to Esther, the manager of the hotel where he was staying.

When he got to the top of the 9,000-foot volcano there was fog everywhere. While he was looking down 120

feet into the mouth of the volcano, he fell in and nearly killed himself.

Four days later, when her guest didn't return, Esther realized she had to do something. However, she didn't

know who to ask. Finally, she asked a skillful local shaman to help. The man communicated with spirits, who

told him where Kevin was. He said that, as well as broken bones, he had conflicting, negative spirits inside

him, too.

Eventually, the police found the injured, thin man and took him to the hospital.

EXERCISE 3. Describe your home using as many adjectives as you can in the correct order.

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