Adjectives Orders (Solution 20-11-2020)

Adjectives: a nice new house,
you look tired

Sometimes we use two or more adjectives together:
CI My brother lives in a nice new house.
In the kitchen there was a beautiful large round wooden table.
Adjectives like newnarge/round/wooden are fact adjectives. They give us factual information
about age, size, colour etc.
Adjectives like nice/beautiful are opinion adjectives. They tell us what somebody thinks Of
something or somebody.
Opinion adjectives usually go before fact adjectives.
opinion
a nice an fact long summer holiday
interesting young man hot vegetable
delicious a soup large round wooden table
beautiful
Sometimes we use two or more fact

adjectives together. Usually (but not
always) we put fact adjectives in this order:
3 what 4 5
1 how 2 how colour where what is
NOUN
big? old? ? from? it made
of?
a tall young man (I 2) a large wooden table (1 5) big blue eyes (I 3) an old
Russian song (2 -+ 4) a small black plastic bag (I 3 -+ 5) an old white cotton
shirt (2 3 5)
Adjectives of size and length (big/small/tall/short/long etc.) usually go before adjectives of shape and
width (round/fat/thin/slim/wide etc.):
a large round table a tall thin girl a long narrow street When
there are two or more colour adjectives, we use and:
a black and white dress a red, white and green flag
This does not usually happen with other
adjectives before a noun: a long black
dress (not a long and black dress)
We use adjectives after be/get/become/seem:
Be careful!
C I'm tired and I'm getting hungry.
O As the film went on, it became more and more boring. Your
friend seems very nice.
We also use adjectives to say how somebody/something looks, feels, sounds, tastes or
smells:
CI You look tired. / I feel tired. / She sounds tired.
The dinner smells good.
CJ This tea tastes a bit strange.
But to say how somebody does something you must use an adverb (see Units 100—
101 D Drive carefully! (not Drive careful)
C] Susan plays the piano very well. (not plays very good)
We say 'the first two days / the next few weeks / the last ten minutes'
etc. : C] I didn't enjoy the first two days of the course. (not the two
first days)
O They'll be away for the next few weeks. (not the few next weeks)
Adverbs Units 100—101 Comparison (cheaper etc.) Units 105-107

Superlatives (cheapest etc.) Unit 108
Exercises Unit 99
99.1 Put the adjectives in brackets in the correct position.
1. a beautiful table (wooden / round) a beautiful round wooden table
2. an unusual ring (gold) an unusual gold ring

3.an old house (beautiful) a beautiful old house
4. black gloves (leather) black leather gloves
5. an American film (old) an old American film
6. a long face (thin) a long thin face
7. big clouds (black) big black clouds
8. a sunny day (lovely) a lovely sunny day
9. an ugly dress (yellow) an ugly yellow dress
10. a wide avenue (long) a long wide avenue
11. a red car (old / little) a little old red car
12. a new sweater (green / nice) a nice new green sweater
13. a metal box (black / small) a small black metal box
14. a big cat (fat / black) a big fat black cat
15. a little village (old / lovely) a lovely little old village
16. long hair (black / beautiful) beautiful long black hair
17. an old painting (interesting / French) an interesting old French painting
18. an enormous umbrella (red / yellow) an enormous red and yellow umbrella
99.2 Complete each sentence with a verb (in the correct form) and an adjective from the boxes.
feel look seem Awful fine interesting
smell sound taste nice upset wet
1. Helen seemed upset this morning. Do you know what was wrong?
2.I can't eat this. I've just tried it and it tasted awful .
3. I wasn't verv well yesterdav, but I feel fine today.
4. What beautiful flowers! Thev smell nice .
5. You look wet .Have vou been out in the rain?
6. Jim was telling me about his new job. It sounded interesting — much better than his old job.
99.3 Put in the correct word.

1. This tea tastes a bit strange . (strange / strangely)
2.alwavs feel happy when the sun is shining. (happy / happily)
3.The children were playing happily in the garden. (happy / happily)
4.The man became violent when the manager of the restaurant asked him to leave.
(violent / violently)
5.You look terrible ! Are you all right? (terrible / terribly)
6.There's no point in doing a job if you don't do it properly (proper / properly)
7.The soup tastes good . (good / well)
8. Hurry up! You're always so slow (slow / slowly)
99.4 Write the following in another way using the first ... / the next ... / the last .
1 the first day and the second day of the course the first two days of the course
2 next week and the week after the next two weeks
3 yesterday and the day before yesterday the last two days
4 the first week and the second week of May the first two weeks of May
5 tomorrow and a few days after that the next few days
6 questions I, 2 and 3 in the exam the first three questions
7 next year and the year after the next two years
8 the last day of our holiday and the two days before that the last three days of our
holiday

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Adjectives: a nice new house,

you look tired

Sometimes we use two or more fact

Adverbs Units 100—101 Comparison (cheaper etc.) Units 105-107

1. a beautiful table (wooden / round) a beautiful round wooden table

2. an unusual ring (gold) an unusual gold ring

smell sound taste nice upset wet

3. I wasn't verv well yesterdav, but I feel fine today.

4. What beautiful flowers! Thev smell nice .

5. You look wet .Have vou been out in the rain?

99.3 Put in the correct word.

2.alwavs feel happy when the sun is shining. (happy / happily)

3.The children were playing happily in the garden. (happy / happily)

5.You look terrible ! Are you all right? (terrible / terribly)

6.There's no point in doing a job if you don't do it properly (proper / properly)

7.The soup tastes good . (good / well)

8. Hurry up! You're always so slow (slow / slowly)

6 questions I, 2 and 3 in the exam the first three questions

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