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ORDER OF ADJECTIVES

Opinion | An opinion adjective explains what you think about something (other people may not agree with you).
Examples: silly, beautiful, horrible, difficult |
Size | Asize adjective, of course, tells you how big or small something is.
Examples: large, tiny, enormous, little |
Age | An age adjective tells you how young or old something or someone is.
Examples:ancient, new, young, old |
Shape | A shape adjective describes the shape of something.
Examples: square, round, flat, rectangular |
Colour | A colour adjective, of course, describes the colour ofsomething.
Examples: blue, pink, reddish, grey |
Origin | An origin adjective describes where something comes from.
Examples: French, lunar, American, eastern, Greek |
Material | A materialadjective describes what something is made from.
Examples: wooden, metal, cotton, paper |
Purpose | A purpose adjective describes what something is used for. These adjectives often end with “-ing”.Examples: sleeping (as in “sleeping bag”), roasting (as in “roasting tin”) |

Some examples of adjective order
| Opinion | Size | Age | Shape | Colour | Origin | Material | Purpose | |
a | silly || young | | | English | | | man |
a | | huge | | round | | | metal | | bowl |
a | | small | | | red | | | sleeping | bag |

1. Which is the correct order? |
a small Canadianthin lady |
a Canadian small thin lady |
a small thin Canadian lady |
a thin small Canadian lady |
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2. Which is the correct order? |
a carving steel new knife |
a new steel carving knife|
a steel new carving knife |
a new carving steel knife |
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3. Which is the correct order? |
a beautiful blue sailing boat |
a blue beautiful sailing boat |
a sailing beautiful blueboat |
a blue sailing beautiful boat |
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4. Which is the correct order? |
an old wooden square table |
a square wooden old table |
an old square wooden table |
a wooden old square table...