Grammar Adjectives

1. GrammarAdjectives Ms. Lopez February 13th, 2012

2. Adjectives • Definition Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence. • The Articles — a, an, and the — are adjectives.

3. AdjectivesOrder

4. Order of Adjectives • Determiner or article • Determiners e.g. this, that, these, those, my, mine, your, yours, him, his, her, hers, they, their, Sam's ; or • Articles - a, an, the Nationality : e.g. Hong Kong, Chinese, English, American, Canadian, Japanese Religion: e.g.Buddhist, Taoist, Christian, Moslem, pagan, atheist

5. Which is the correct order? • a small Canadian thin lady • a Canadian small thin lady • a small thin Canadian lady • a thin small Canadian lady # 3. Correct! Size, shape, then origin • a carving steel new knife • a new steel carving knife • a steel new carving knife • a new carving steel knife # 2. Correct! Age, material, then purpose • a beautiful blue sailing boat • a blue beautiful sailing boat • a sailing beautiful blue boat • a blue sailing beautiful boat #1. Correct! Opinion, colour, then purpose • an old wooden square table • a square wooden old table • an old square wooden table • a wooden old square table #3. Correct! Age, shape, then material an new French exciting band a French new exciting band an exciting French new band an exciting new French band # 4. Correct! Opinion, age, then origin a red big plastic hat a big red plastic hat a plastic big red hat a bit plastic red hat # 2. Correct! Size, colour, then material a small Japanese serving bowl a Japanese small serving bowl a small serving Japanese bowl a serving small Japanese bowl # 1. Correct! Size, origin, then purpose a cotton dirty old tie a dirty cotton old tie an old cotton dirty tie a dirty old cotton tie # 4. Correct! Opinion, age, then material. an new French exciting band a French new exciting band an exciting French new band an exciting new French band a red big plastic hat a big red plastic hat a plastic big red hat a bit plastic red hat a small Japanese serving bowl a Japanese small serving bowl a small serving Japanese bowl a serving small Japanese bowl a cotton dirty old tie a dirty cotton old tie an old cotton dirty tie a dirty old cotton tie • a small Canadian thin lady • a Canadian small thin lady • a small thin Canadian lady • a thin small Canadian lady • a carving steel new knife • a new steel carving knife • a steel new carving knife • a new carving steel knife • a beautiful blue sailing boat • a blue beautiful sailing boat • a sailing beautiful blue boat • a blue sailing beautiful boat • an old wooden square table • a square wooden old table • an old square wooden table • a wooden old square table

6. Type the correct noun phrase, putting the adjectives in order. • Round smallreadinglamp • Germanoldyellow car • Woodenhugesailingship • Physicsboringoldteacher • Slim Canadian handsomesnowboarder • Sugarblue round bowl A SMALL ROUND READING LAMP AN OLD YELLOW GERMAN CAR A HUGE WOODEN SAILING SHIP A BORING OLD PHYSICS TEACHER A HANDSOME SLIM CANADIAN SNOWBOARDER A ROUND BLUE SUGAR BOWL

7. Word Order for Adjectives Exercise • Below you can see a diagram explaining the position of adjectives before a noun. Use it to answer the questions which follow. • OPINION –CONDITION- SIZE -AGE -COLOUR -ORIGIN -MATERIAL -NOUN • Order the words in the boxes. my teacher old maths  smelly new a perfect system black small box Turkish a old 18th century a Scottish fantastic castle man a fat friendly young businessman horrible greedy tall our headmaster boring a big old brown bear wooden dark a table long student self-righteous a middle-class city a Spanish beautiful old spoilt boy nasty a little arts nice teacher French our green-eyed gorgeous black-haired a girl

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9. Practice online • http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/139.html • http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-42493.php • http://www.better-english.com/grammar/adjord2.htm