Adjective Order - Exercises

Article/Number

Opinion Size Age Shap

eColou

rOrigi

nMateri

alPurpos

eNoun

the sillyyoung

English

man

two huge round metal bowls

asmall

red sleeping bag

Opinion Size Age Shape Colour Material Origin Purpose

Nice Small Old Square Black Plastic British Racing

Ugly Big New Circular Blue Cotton American Running

Choose the correct adjective order.

Q1 - I bought a pair of _____ shoes.

black leather

leather black

Q2 - It was a ____ car.

red fast

fast red

Q3 - It's a ____ building.

big round

round big

Q4 - I bought ____ knife.

a Swiss army

an army Swiss

Q5 - It's ____ film.

a beautiful old

an old beautiful

Q6 - He's ____ man.

an unfriendly rich

a rich unfriendly

Q7 - It's ____ phone.

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a mobile expensive

an expensive mobile

Q8 - It's ____ village.

an old lovely

a lovely old

Q9 - The ____ visitors were Japanese.

two last

last two

Q10 - He's got ____ eyes.

blue big

big blue

Q11 - It's a ____ house.

nice new

new nice

Q12 - It's ____ airline.

a popular American

an American popular

Q13 - It's ____ company

a family old

an old family

Q14 - It's a ____ restaurant.

cheap good

good cheap

1. Which is the correct order?a small Canadian thin ladya Canadian small thin ladya small thin Canadian ladya thin small Canadian lady

2. Which is the correct order?a carving steel new knifea new steel carving knifea steel new carving knifea new carving steel knife

3. Which is the correct order?a beautiful blue sailing boata blue beautiful sailing boata sailing beautiful blue boata blue sailing beautiful boat

4. Which is the correct order?an old wooden square tablea square wooden old tablean old square wooden tablea wooden old square table

5. Which is the correct order?an new French exciting banda French new exciting bandan exciting French new bandan exciting new French band

6. Which is the correct order?a red big plastic hata big red plastic hata plastic big red hata bit plastic red hat

7. Which is the correct order?a small Japanese serving bowla Japanese small serving bowla small serving Japanese bowla serving small Japanese bowl

8. Which is the correct order?a cotton dirty old tiea dirty cotton old tiean old cotton dirty tiea dirty old cotton tie

Complete the following sentences using the correct adjective order. Use commas between the adjectives if you have three or more.

Maria has ______ ________ _________ ________ hair. black, beautiful, thick

I saw the _______ ________ ________ table this morning.wooden, ugliest, round

She looks so elegant in her ________ _______ ________ coat.wool, Italian, long

That is the _________ ________ _________ sculpture in this museum.metal, most unusual, modern

They bought a lot of ________ ________ ________ furniture on the trip.Indian, antique, interesting

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1. At home there is a __________________table in the dining room. (beautiful, wooden, square)2. I was offered_____________ring by my husband. (gold, a/n, unusual)3. My grandmother has knitted______________sweater for me. (woolen, new, nice, a)4. I saw____________movie with friends at home. (a/n, American, old, interesting)5. It may rain ! There are_____________clouds floating in the air. (black, big, rain, many)6. It was such_____________day that we decided to go out for a walk. (sunny, lovely, cool, a)7. My daughter has_______________hair. (black, long, beautiful)8. Last week, I visited____________village in a remote place. (little, charming, a/n, old)9. The gallery exhibited mainly______________paintings. (old, French, strange)10. John was given________________kitten by his sister. (little, a/n, adorable, black)11. It started to rain so I opened________________umbrella. (red and yellow, a/n, enormous)12. I inherited _____________house built in 1860. (old, picturesque, a/n)13. _______________car was parked opposite my house. (Italian, blue, sleek, a/n)

Rewrite the following phrases using the correct adjective order. Use commas between the adjectives if you have three or more adjectives.

1 warm beach a sandy beautiful

   2 film handsome American a/n actor

   3 a/n teacher intelligent part-time likeable

   4 balloon A plastic red hot-air huge

   5 A basement apartment fully-furnished lovely

   6 A dog black pedigree friendly

   7 strange small A box square metal

   8 bag. beautiful A travel leather old

   

1. beautiful Japanese car a/n old

2. big wooden rectangular tables Some

3. small cake A round delicious

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4. strong rapper black French short the young

5. watch gold my modern valuable

6. carpet new Chinese charming red their small

7. old black big one Canadian box

8. small necklace silver charming a/n

9. proverb Chinese interesting short a/n

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