Complex noun phrase
The categories in the following table can be described as follows:
Determiners:
Observation:
articles and other limiters.
postdeterminers and limiter adjectives
(e.g., a real hero, a perfect idiot)
and adjectives subject to subjective measure (e.g., beautiful, interesting)
adjectives subject to objective measure
(e.g., wealthy, large, round)
adjectives denoting age
(e.g., young, old, new, ancient)
adjectives denoting color
(e.g., red, black, pale)
denominal adjectives denoting source of noun
(e.g., French, American, Canadian)
denominal adjectives denoting what something is made of
(e.g., woolen, metallic, wooden)
final limiter, often regarded as part of the noun
(e.g., rocking chair, hunting cabin, passenger car, book cover)
Size and Shape:
Age:
Color:
Origin:
Material:
Qualifier:
THE ROYAL ORDER OF ADJECTIVES
Determiner Observation
Physical Description
Size
Shape
Age
a
beautiful
old
an
expensive
antique
four
gorgeous
her
our
Origin
Italian
touring
silver
red
short
black
old
those
silk
dilapidated
several
some
delicious
handmade
roses
sheepdog
wooden
young
mirror
English
little
enormous
car
hair
square
that
Noun
Color
longstemmed
big
Material Qualifier
American
hat
boxes
hunting
cabin
basketball players
Thai
food
Pre-modifiers + Head Noun
Determiners + opinion (general) + size + shape + quality + age + colour + participle forms + material +
origin + type + purpose + HEAD NOUN
- Determiners: articles / possessive adjectives / demonstrative adjectives / quantity…
- Opinion: nice, wonderful, excellent, lovely, terrible, awful...
- Size: large, small, long, short, tall...
- Shape: round, square, fat, thin, wide, narrow....
- Quality: clear, busy, famous, important, quiet.....
- Age: old, new, young....
- Colour: green, red, yellow…
- Participles: broken, torn out, running, crying…
- Material: brick, paper, plastic, wooden.....
- Origin: British, Italian, American....
- Type: human, chemical, domestic, electronic....
- Purpose: alarm (clock), tennis (course), walking (boots)....
Số tính kích hình chất
(Từ chất
cỡ
dạng lượng
Tuổi màu phân liệu
từ chất
Quốc loại mục danh
tịch
đích
từ chính)
Parts of speech
1 - A Verb can be used:
+ after N(P) / pron. (as S)
My mother (she) always .............. meals carefully.
(preparation)
+ after modal: Nothing could ................... him.
(attractive)
+ before adv: Things ................... successfully at this time.
(get on)
2 - A Noun can be used:
+ as S
....... is a serious problem in many countries.
(employ)
+ as O (after transitive V)
Have you got any ..............?
(suggest)
+ as Complement
I consider him my ................... as he has taught me a lot.
+ after Adj. The restaurant now is under a new ...........
(manage)
+ after Determiners/quantifiers
What is the ............ of the runway at this airport? (long)
We have had a lot of ............ from customers today. (complain)
+ after Prep. I had to check the wages in ................ to my normal work. (add)
+ after BE
They teach here. They are ...................
3 - An Adj. can be used:
+ before N
Artists are ................... people.
(create)
+ after Adv. He is completely ...................
(employ).
+ after BE (Linking verbs: seem, smell, taste, look, feel, sound, appear)
He was ................... of the work he had done.
(pride)
Having been waiting a long time, I start to feel .............
(patient)
4 - An Adv. can be used:
+ after V.
I wrote ................. letters of application, but got no reply. (end)
+ before Adj. The world of computers is ................... competitive.
(extreme)