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Activity: Which is the correct order?
1 He goes out with _
A a small Canadian funny lady
B a Canadian small funny lady
C a small funny Canadian lady
D a funny small Canadian lady
2 I used _ to cut the roast beef.
A a carving steel new knife
B a new steel carving knife
C a steel new carving knife
D a new carving steel knife
3 My uncle just bought _
A a beautiful blue sailing boat
B a blue beautiful sailing boat
C a sailing beautiful blue boat
D a blue sailing beautiful boat
4 I put in the garbage.
A an old wooden square table
B a square wooden old table
C an old square wooden table
D a wooden old square table
5 We went to the Bell Center and saw _
A an new French exciting band
B a French new exciting band
C an exciting French new band
D an exciting new French band
6 She was wearing at the party.
A an ugly red big plastic hat
B an ugly big red plastic hat
C a plastic ugly big red hat
D a big ugly plastic red hat
7 My soup is in _
A a small Japanese serving bowl
B a Japanese small serving bowl
C a small serving Japanese bowl
D a serving small Japanese bowl
8 Her husband was wearing
A a long cotton dirty old tie
B a dirty long cotton old tie
C an old long cotton dirty tie
D a dirty long old cotton tie
Trang 2Order of Adjectives
It is very common to use more than one adjective, there is a specific order
1 Determiner and Quantifiers - a, an, her, five many, much several etc
2 Opinion - pretty, ugly, smart, cheap, etc
3 Size - big, fat, thin, tall, large, small etc
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5 Age - old, young 10 years, a year, a week, new etc.
6 Color - yellow, green, pink etc
7 Origin - American, Asian, Middle Eastern, African, European, Chinese etc
8 Material - cotton, wood, plastic, cloth, glass, gold etc.
9 Purpose - the reason that something is needed (ex: lunch box, sleeping bag)
Now you try, fill in the coloured boxes in numbers 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 with a determinant or quantifier and three adjectives which correspond with the noun in the last column Follow the examples, numbers
1 to 7.
Determiner
Quantifier
Opinion Size Shape Age Color Origine Materiel purpose Noun
1
3
5
7
9
box
11
man
1 He goes out with _
D a funny small Canadian lady
2 I used _ to cut the roast beef.
B a new steel carving knife
3 My uncle just bought _
A a beautiful blue sailing boat
4 I put in the garbage.
C an old square wooden table
5 We went to the Bell Center and saw _
D an exciting new French band
6 She was wearing at the party.
B an ugly big red plastic hat
7 My soup is in _
A a small Japanese serving bowl
8 Her husband was wearing
D a dirty long old cotton tie
The answers may vary
Determiner
Quantifier
Opinion Size Shape Age Color Origine Materiel purpose Noun
2
4
6
8
10
12