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Objective: Ordering Descriptive Adjectives. Instructions: Study The Chart Below. Then, Answer The Exercise That Follows It

The document provides instructions for ordering descriptive adjectives in sentences correctly based on categories like evaluation, appearance, age, color, origin, and more. It includes an example story and asks to reorder the adjectives in sentences correctly based on the categories.

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Objective: Ordering Descriptive Adjectives. Instructions: Study The Chart Below. Then, Answer The Exercise That Follows It

The document provides instructions for ordering descriptive adjectives in sentences correctly based on categories like evaluation, appearance, age, color, origin, and more. It includes an example story and asks to reorder the adjectives in sentences correctly based on the categories.

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Objective: Ordering descriptive adjectives.

Instructions: study the chart below. Then, answer the exercise that follows it.

Evaluation / Opinion Appearance Age Color Origin

Good Size / Measure Old Red Geographical


Bad Big Young Green French
Ugly Small New Blue Italian
Interesting Low Antique Tan Japanese
Nice High etc Pink etc
Intelligent Heavy... etc
etc
Shape Material
Round Wooden
Square Vegetable
Triangular... Cotton
Plastic
Condition etc
Filthy
Broken
Rotten...

Within a particular category there is some possible variation. Ex.: a big, round, shiny apple or a
shiny, big, round apple.

 Order the adjectives correctly in the following story.

My friend Wolfgang is a real shopaholic. Whenever he goes out of the house, he returns with
some (1) strange, new ( new, strange ) "bargain". Fortunately, he refuses to buy anything
secondhand. I can imagine all the (2) ____________________________________ ( useless, incredibly
ugly, antique ) "art objects" he would bring home. He already has (3) ___________________________
______________________________________________ ( brand-new, European, expensive, plenty of,
bright-colored ) shirts and sweaters, but that stop him from buying more. He just piles them into his (4)
______________________________________________ ( little, dark, bedroom, overcrowded ) closet.
He has some (5) ___________________________________________ ( Italian, nice, handmade ) shoes
that I've never seen him wearing.
He's running out of space to put things. He has such a (6) ____________________ ( new, nice )
apartment with lots of storage space, but his closets look like some (7) __________________________
( old, poor ) shopkeeper's (8) ________________________________________ ( frightening, terrible )
nightmare!

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