DETERMINER – ORDINAL - CARDINAL - SIZE - SHARP - QUALITY - AGE –
COLOR - (ORIGIN) NOUN MODIFIER - NOUN
Arrange the adjectives in the right order:
1.- There was _____________________________________________________________ outside the house.
(a dog, black, terrifying, huge)
2.- I gave her _____________________________________________________________ for her birthday.
(some handkerchiefs, beautiful, white, cotton)
3.- There was ___________________________________________________________ hanging on the wall.
(a picture, old, wonderful, Impressionist)
4.- Have you seen __________________________________________________________ lying on the floor?
(a pair of gloves, brown, leather)
5.- She was wearing __________________________________________________________________ .
(a sweater, winter, woolen)
Order the words in the boxes.
1 ___________________________________. 8 ___________________________________.
my teacher old horrible maths dirty new a perfect system
2 ___________________________________. 9 ___________________________________.
black small box ebony a old 18th century a Scottish fantastic castle
3 ___________________________________. 10 ___________________________________.
man a short friendly young a businessman horrible greedy
4 ___________________________________. 11 ___________________________________.
old our headmaster boring a big old brown bear
5 ___________________________________. 12 ___________________________________.
wooden dark a table long citizen self-righteous a middle-class
6 ___________________________________. 13 ___________________________________.
city a Italian beautiful old spoilt boy nasty a little
7 ___________________________________. 14 ___________________________________.
arts nice teacher new our French American gorgeous blond-haired a girl
ORDER OF ADJECTIVES
Choose the right option:
1. a a cotton dirty old tie 5. a. an old wooden square table
b. a dirty cotton old tie b. a square wooden old table
c. an old cotton dirty tie c. an old square wooden table
d. a dirty old cotton tie d. a wooden old square table
2. a. a small Japanese serving bowl 6. a. a beautiful blue sailing boat
b. a Japanese small serving bowl b. a blue beautiful sailing boat
c. a small serving Japanese bowl c. a sailing beautiful blue boat
d. a serving small Japanese bowl d. a blue sailing beautiful boat
3. a. a red big plastic hat 7. a. a carving steel new knife
b. a big red plastic hat b. a new steel carving knife
c. a plastic big red hat c. a steel new carving knife
d. a big plastic red hat d. a new carving steel knife
4. a. an new French exciting band 8. a. a small Canadian thin lady
b. a French new exciting band b. a Canadian small thin lady
c. an exciting French new band c. a small thin Canadian lady
d. an exciting new French band d. a thin small Canadian lady
Order the words in the boxes.
1 ___________________________________. 8 ___________________________________.
my teacher old horrible maths dirty new a perfect system
2 ___________________________________. 9 ___________________________________.
black small box ebony a old 18th century a Scottish fantastic castle
3 ___________________________________. 10 ___________________________________.
man a short friendly young a businessman horrible greedy
4 ___________________________________. 11 ___________________________________.
old our headmaster boring a big old brown bear
5 ___________________________________. 12 ___________________________________.
wooden dark a table long citizen self-righteous a middle-class
6 ___________________________________. 13 ___________________________________.
city a Italian beautiful old spoilt boy nasty a little
7 ___________________________________. 14 ___________________________________.
arts nice teacher new our French American gorgeous blond-haired a girl
EXERCISE 1
1. There Was a terrifying huge black dog …
2. I gave her some beautiful white cotton handkerchiefs…
3. There was a wonderful old Impressionist picture…
4. Have you seen a pair of brown leather gloves…
5. She was wearing a winter woollen sweater …
6. There is a very old Gothic church …
7. My mother bought several small blue plastic plates …
8. The fifteen-year-old French girl …
9. There were a lot of useless little china ornaments …
10. Why don’t you wear your thick fur coat …
EXERCISE 2
1. d
2. a
3. b
4. d
5. c
6. a
7. b
8. c
EXERCISE 3
1. My horrible dirty old maths teacher
2. a small old black ebony box
3. a friendly short young man
4. our boring old headmaster
5. a long dark wooden table
6. a beautiful old Italian city
7. our nice new French arts teacher
8. a perfect new system
9. a fantastic 18th century Scottish castle
10. A horrible greedy businessman
11. a big old brown bear
12. a self-righteous middle-class citizen
13. a nasty spoilt little boy
14. a gorgeous blond-haired American girl
