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    The document provides examples of sentences using descriptive adjectives and lists common adjectives categorized by type, including appearance, color, condition, personality, shape, size, sound, time, taste/touch, and touch. It also includes exercises assessing the correct order of adjectives in sentences.

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    The document provides examples of sentences using descriptive adjectives and lists common adjectives categorized by type, including appearance, color, condition, personality, shape, size, sound, time, taste/touch, and touch. It also includes exercises assessing the correct order of adjectives in sentences.

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    Rule of adjectives order and exercises, plus a list of different adjectives.

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    The document provides examples of sentences using descriptive adjectives and lists common adjectives categorized by type, including appearance, color, condition, personality, shape, size, sound, time, taste/touch, and touch. It also includes exercises assessing the correct order of adjectives in sentences.

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    Order of Adjectives

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    The document provides examples of sentences using descriptive adjectives and lists common adjectives categorized by type, including appearance, color, condition, personality, shape, size, sound, time, taste/touch, and touch. It also includes exercises assessing the correct order of adjectives in sentences.

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    Examples

    1. I love that really big old green antique car that is always parked at the end of the street.
    [quality size age color qualifier]
    2. My sister has a beautiful big white bulldog. [quality size color]
    3. A wonderful old Italian clock. [opinion age origin]
    4. A big square blue box. [size shape color]
    5. A disgusting pink plastic ornament. [opinion color material]
    6. Some new slim French trousers. [age shape origin]
    7. My small new red sleeping bag. [size age color purposee]
    8. I bought a pair of black leather shoes. [color material]

    Common adjectives

    Good
    New
    First
    Last
    Long
    great

    little
    own
    other
    old
    right
    big

    high
    differen
    t

    small
    large
    next

    early
    young
    importa

    bad
    same
    able

    nt

    few
    public
    1

    Appearance adjectives

    adorable
    beautiful
    clean
    drab
    elegant

    fancy
    glamorous
    handsome
    long
    magnificent

    oldfashioned
    plain
    quaint
    sparkling

    ugliest
    unsightly
    wide-eyed

    Color adjectives

    red
    orange
    yellow
    pink

    green
    blue
    purple
    brown

    gray
    black
    white
    silver

    lilac
    lime
    maroon
    turquois
    e

    beige
    olive
    indigo
    violet

    Condition adjectives

    alive
    better
    careful
    clever
    dead

    easy
    famous
    gifted
    helpful
    important

    inexpensive
    mushy
    odd
    powerful
    rich

    shy
    tender
    uninterested
    vast
    wrong

    silly
    thankful
    victorious
    witty
    zealous

    thoughtless
    uptight
    worried

    straight
    wide

    Personality adjectives Positive

    agreeable
    brave
    calm
    delightful
    eager

    faithful
    gentle
    happy
    jolly
    kind

    lively
    nice
    obedient
    proud
    relieved

    Personality adjectives Negative

    angry
    bewildered
    clumsy
    defeated
    embarrasse
    d

    fierce
    grumpy
    helpless
    itchy
    jealous
    lazy

    mysterious
    nervous
    obnoxious
    panicky
    repulsive
    scary

    Shape adjectives

    broad
    chubby
    crooked
    curved
    deep

    flat
    high
    hollow
    low
    narrow

    round
    shallow
    skinny
    square
    steep

    Size adjectives

    big
    colossal
    fat
    gigantic
    great
    huge

    immense
    large
    little
    mammoth
    massive
    miniature

    petite
    puny
    scrawny
    short
    small
    tall

    teeny
    teeny-tiny
    tiny
    itsy-bitsy

    voiceless
    whispering

    short
    slow
    swift
    young

    tasteless
    uneven
    weak
    wet
    wooden
    yummy

    fluffy
    freezing
    hot
    warm
    wet

    Sound adjectives

    cooing
    deafening
    faint
    hissing

    loud
    melodic
    noisy
    purring

    quiet
    raspy
    screeching
    thundering

    Time adjectives

    ancient
    brief
    early
    fast

    late
    long
    modern
    old

    oldfashioned
    quick
    rapid

    Taste/touch adjectives

    bitter
    delicious
    fresh
    greasy
    juicy
    hot

    icy
    loose
    melted
    nutritious
    prickly
    rainy

    rotten
    salty
    sticky
    strong
    sweet
    tart

    Touch adjectives

    boiling
    breeze
    broken
    bumpy
    chilly
    cold

    cool
    creepy
    crooked
    cuddly
    curly
    damaged

    damp
    dirty
    dry
    dusty
    filthy
    flaky

    Exercises (Order of Adjectives)


    1. For each of the following sentences, choose the correct order of adjectives to fill in the blank.
    A.
    His grandfather lives in the ________________________ house down the street.

    big old yellow

    yellow old big

    old big yellow


    B.

    The shop offers all kinds of _____________________ objects.


    interesting old antique
    old antique interesting
    old interesting antique

    C.

    We went for a long walk on a __________________________ trail.


    Beautiful new 5-mile
    New, beautiful 5-mile
    5-mile new, beautiful

    2. Which sentence uses the correct order of adjectives?


    A.
    We took a ride on a red, new, Italian motorbike.
    B.
    We took a ride on an Italian, new, red motorbike.
    C.
    We took a ride on a new red Italian motorbike.
    3. For each of the following sentences, choose the correct order of adjectives to fill in the blank.
    A.
    I was thrilled to receive a __________________ book with my order.

    big, beautiful, leather-bound

    leather-bound, big, beautiful

    beautiful big leather-bound


    B.

    His clown costume consists of a red nose, oversized shoes, and a ________________ jacket.
    Size 4X polka-dotted silk smoking
    polka-dotted silk smoking size 4X
    polka dotted size 4x silk smoking

    C.

    Ive been shopping for the perfect _______________ chopsticks.


    Japanese long sushi
    long Japanese sushi
    long sushi Japanese

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