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    This document discusses the correct order of adjectives before a noun in English. [1] It provides rules for ordering adjectives based on their type, such as color coming before origin, which comes before material. [2] Other adjectives like size, length and height typically come first. [3] Adjectives expressing opinions like "lovely" come before all other adjectives. Numbers come before adjectives. Age is usually placed after size descriptors but before color or material. The document provides example phrases and links to exercises to practice adjective ordering.

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    This document discusses the correct order of adjectives before a noun in English. [1] It provides rules for ordering adjectives based on their type, such as color coming before origin, which comes before material. [2] Other adjectives like size, length and height typically come first. [3] Adjectives expressing opinions like "lovely" come before all other adjectives. Numbers come before adjectives. Age is usually placed after size descriptors but before color or material. The document provides example phrases and links to exercises to practice adjective ordering.

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    This document discusses the correct order of adjectives before a noun in English. [1] It provides rules for ordering adjectives based on their type, such as color coming before origin, which comes before material. [2] Other adjectives like size, length and height typically come first. [3] Adjectives expressing opinions like "lovely" come before all other adjectives. Numbers come before adjectives. Age is usually placed after size descriptors but before color or material. The document provides example phrases and links to exercises to practice adjective ordering.

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    Adjective order

    grammar game
    What is the correct order of adjectives before a noun ?

    1. Adjectives of color, origin, material and


    purpose usually go in that order.
    {Color _origin _material_ purpose _noun} red
    e.g.: Spanish leather riding boots
    e.g.: A brown German beer mug
    e.g.: A Venetian glass flower vase
    2. Other adjectives usually go before words of colour, origin,
    material and purpose. It is impossible to give exact rules, but
    adjectives of size, length and height often come first.
    The round glass table (NOT the glass round table)
    A big, modern brick house (NOT a modern, big brick house)
    Long, flexible steel poles
    A tall, ancient oak-tree

    • 3. Adjectives which express judgments or attitudes usually


    come before all others.
    • Examples are lovely, definite, pure, absolute, extreme, perfect,
    wonderful, silly.
    • A lovely, long, cool drink
    • Who's that silly fat man over there?
    4. Numbers usually go before adjectives.
    ---Six large eggs
    ---The second big shock
    ---First, next and last most often go before one,
    two, three etc.
    The first three days My last two jobs."
    • 5- Age, which would normally go after adjectives of
    size, length and height, but before colour, origin,
    material and purpose.
    • A big old straw hat.
    • A charming young university student.
    Thus, a complete list could be:
    (article) + number + judgment/attitude +
    size, length, height + age + colour +
    origin + material + purpose + noun
    • a lovely long black leather coat
    • a valuable Dutch Impressionist painting
    • a rustic old stone holiday cottage
    • now do this exercise:
    http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/adjord.htm
    For more information about adjective order, see

    http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/adjord.htm

    http://www.englishclub.net/grammar/adjectives/order2.shtml

    For exercises on adjective order, see: •


    http://www.better-english.com/grammar/adjord.htm •
    http://www.betterenglish.com/grammar/adjord2.htm
    http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/adjord1.htm •
    http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/adjord2.htm •
    http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/vm/adjorder.html •

    http://www.englishoutlook.com/focus/grammar/adjorder.html •
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    ****************************************************** •
    This lesson is from the English course book
    For the second secondary grade( term 2)

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