Order of adjectives

What is an adjective ?

An old bicycle
Adjectiv
e


What is an adjective ?

an angry man
Adjective


What is an adjective?

- The adjective is a word that describes a noun by
giving some information about an object’s opinion,
size, shape, age, colour, origin or material like happy,
beautiful, small, black, etc.


Adjectives
Adjectives
ADJECTIVES
Noun
Let’s find three adjectives that
describe this cat.

1. This is a wet cat.
2. This is a white cat
3. This is a angry cat.

What is the correct order of these adjectives?

This is a/an

cat.

Cat


ORDER OF ADJECTIVES
Opinion
Size
Age
Shape
Colour
Origin
Material

Purpose


ORDER OF ADJECTIVES
Describes what we think about
Opinion something.

beautiful, ugly, difficult, happy, lovely,
boring, comfortable

Size

Describes how big or small
something is

small, tall, long, short, fat, thin, slim,
skinny, baggy, huge

Age

Describes how old or young
something is

new, young, old, antique

Shape

Describes the shape of something
or how long or short it is.

round, square, circular

Describes the colour of something

reddish, purple, pinkish, grey, yellow,
green, blond

Describes where the noun is from

French, American, British, Thai,
Turkish, Chinese, African

Colour
Origin
Material

Describes what the noun is made of wooden, cotton, paper, plastic, leather,

silk, stone, steel, iron

Purpose Describes where the noun is used for sleeping (bag), gardening (gloves),
(These adjectives often end in -ing)
shopping (bag), wedding (dress)


Let’s do examples:
1. Noun: car.
Adjectives: black, beautiful, European, new.

2. Noun: bag.
Adjectives: blue, sleeping, comfortable, big.
big

3. Noun: pillow.
Adjectives: new, lovely, soft, new, pink.
pink


ORDER OF ADJECTIVES
Let’s do exercise 1:
1. These are
cookies.

(Adjectives: chocolate, delicious, huge, round )
2. I found a
box in my sister’s room.
(Adjectives: old, rectangular, small, wooden )
3. I met a
girl last week.
(Adjectives: Vietnamese, young, funny )
4. My mother just bought a
(Adjectives: blue,
blue long, beautiful )
5. He sat behind a
desk.
(Adjectives: wooden, big, brown)
brown

dress for her self.