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• 5- Age , which would normally go after adjectives of size, length and height, but before colour, origin,. material and purpose.[r]
(1)Adjective order
grammar game
What is the correct order of adjectives before a noun ?
1 Adjectives of color, origin, material and
purpose usually go in that order.
{Color _origin _material_ purpose _noun} red
e.g.: Spanish leather riding boots
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Other adjectives usually go before words of colour, origin, material and purpose It is impossible to give exact rules, but
adjectives of size, length and height often come first The round glass table (NOT the glass round table)
A big, modern brick house (NOT a modern, big brick house) Long, flexible steel poles
A tall, ancient oak-tree
• 3 Adjectives which express judgments or attitudes usually come before all others.
• Examples are lovely, definite, pure, absolute, extreme, perfect,
wonderful, silly
(3)4 Numbers usually go before adjectives
-Six large eggs
-The second big shock
-First, next and last most often go before one, two, three etc
The first three days My last two jobs."
• 5- Age, which would normally go after adjectives of size, length and height, but before colour, origin,
material and purpose
• A big old straw hat
(4)Thus, a complete list could be:
(article) + number + judgment/attitude +
size, length, height + age + colour +
origin + material + purpose + noun • a lovely long black leather coat
• a valuable Dutch Impressionist painting • a rustic old stone holiday cottage
(5)For more information about adjective order, see
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/adjord.htm http://www.englishclub.net/grammar/adjectives/order2.shtml
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For exercises on adjective order, see :
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http://www.better-english.com/grammar/adjord.htm http://www.betterenglish.com/grammar/adjord2.htm
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http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/adjord1.htm
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http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/adjord2.htm
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http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/vm/adjorder.html
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