APPEARANCE eager straight TASTE/TOUCH heavy
ADJECTIVES faithful wide ADJECTIVES light
adorable gentle SIZE ADJECTIVES bitter many
beautiful happy big delicious numerous
clean jolly colossal fresh sparse
drab kind fat greasy substantial
elegant lively gigantic juicy aback
fancy nice great hot abaft
glamorous obedient huge icy abandoned
handsome proud immense loose abashed aberrant
long relieved large melted abhorrent abiding
magnificent silly little nutritious abject ablaze
old-fashioned thankful mammoth prickly able abnormal
plain victorious massive rainy aboard aboriginal
quaint witty miniature rotten abortive
sparkling zealous petite salty abounding
ugliest puny sticky abrasive abrupt
PERSONALITY
unsightly strong absent absorbed
ADJECTIVES scrawny
wide-eyed absorbing
NEGATIVE short sweet
COLOR abstracted absurd
angry small tart
ADJECTIVES abundant abusive
bewildered tall tasteless
red acceptable
clumsy teeny uneven
orange accessible
defeated teeny-tiny weak
yellow accidental
embarrass tiny wet
green accurate acid
blue ed SOUND wooden
fierce acidic acoustic
purple ADJECTIVES yummy
grumpy acrid actually ad
gray cooing TOUCH
hoc adamant
black helpless deafening ADJECTIVES
adaptable
white itchy faint boiling
addicted adhesive
CONDITION jealous hissing breeze
adjoining
ADJECTIVES lazy loud broken
adorable
alive mysterious melodic bumpy
adventurous
better nervous noisy chilly afraid aggressive
careful obnoxious purring cold agonizing
clever panicky quiet cool agreeable ahead
dead repulsive raspy creepy ajar alcoholic
easy scary screeching crooked alert alike alive
famous thoughtles thundering cuddly alleged alluring
gifted s voiceless curly aloof amazing
helpful uptight whispering damaged ambiguous
important worried TIME ADJECTIVES damp ambitious amuck
inexpensive SHAPE ancient dirty amused amusing
mushy ADJECTIVES brief dry ancient angry
odd broad early dusty animated
powerful chubby fast filthy annoyed
rich crooked late flaky annoying anxious
shy curved long fluffy apathetic aquatic
tender deep modern freezing aromatic arrogant
uninterested flat old hot ashamed aspiring
vast high old- warm assorted
wrong hollow fashioned wet astonishing
PERSONALITY low quick QUANTITY attractive
ADJECTIVES narrow rapid ADJECTIVES auspicious
POSITIVE round short abundant automatic
agreeable shallow slow empty available average
brave skinny swift few awake aware
calm square young full awesome awful
delightful steep axiomatic
Order of Adjectives Quiz
Complete the sentences, putting the adjectives that are in parentheses in the
correct order to modify the noun that is shown in red.
James just bought a (red /racing / bright /French) bike.
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King Kong climbed the building holding a (slender/young /beautiful) girl in his
hand.
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The king graciously allowed Sir Reginald to keep the (gold / valuable
/carved) chest as his reward.
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Harvey had a (game /mounted /stuffed) fish hanging on the wall of his office.
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Cuddles was a (huge /snarling /mean) dog.
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The smell of a (beef /spicy /hot ) burrito makes Sally hungry.
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Some people like a (cold /tart /tall ) glass of lemonade when they are hot.
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Too many poor people are forced to live in (rat-infested /sub-standard) housing.
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The (snow-covered /mountain /high) peaks glistened in the morning sun.
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Gertrude collects (dollhouse /authentic /Victorian) furniture.
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Word Order for Adjectives Exercise answers
OPINIO CONDITIO SIZ AG COLOU ORIGI NOU
MATERIAL
N N E E R N N
1 My smelly old maths teacher 8 a perfect new system
my teacher old maths smelly new a perfect system
2 a small old black Turkish box 9 a fantastic 18th century Scottish castle
black small box Turkish a old 18th century a Scottish fantastic castle
3 a friendly fat young man 10 a horrible greedy businessman
man a business horrible greedy
4 our boring tall headmaster 11 a big old brown bear
tall our headmaster boring a big old brown bear
5 a long dark wooden table 12 a self-righteous middle-class student
wooden dark a table long student self-righteous a middle-class
6 a beautiful old Spanish city 13 a nasty spoilt little boy
city a Spanish beautiful old spoilt boy nasty a little
7 our nice French arts teacher 14 a gorgeous black-haired green-eyed girl
arts nice teacher our French green-eyed gorgeous black-haired a girl
Sometimes you need to use two or more adjectives to describe something or someone. Part of becoming fluent
in English is knowing which order to use these adjectives in. Choose the most natural-sounding response:
1. He was wearing a ________ shirt.
dirty old flannel
flannel old dirty
old dirty flannel
2. Pass me the ________ cups.
plastic big blue
big blue plastic
big plastic blue
3. All the girls fell in love with the ________ teacher.
handsome new American
American new handsome
new handsome American
4. I used to drive ________ car.
a blue old German
an old German blue
an old blue German
5. He recently married a ________ woman.
young beautiful Greek
beautiful young Greek
beautiful Greek young
6. This is a ________ movie.
new Italian wonderful
wonderful Italian new
wonderful new Italian
7. She is a ________ supermodel.
beautiful slim Brazilian
Brazilian beautiful slim
slim Brazilian beautiful
8. It's in the ________ container.
large blue metal
blue large metal
blue metal large
9. He sat behind a ________ desk.
big wooden brown
big brown wooden
wooden big brown
10. She gave him a ________ vase.
small Egyptian black
black Egyptian small
small black Egyptian