Adjective Order - Exercises

Name: _________________________________Grade:___Date: ____________Score:_____________

Article/
Opinio
Shap Colou Origi Materi Purpos Nou
Numbe
Size Age
n
n
e
r
n
al
e
r
the

youn
g

silly

two

hug
e

smal
l

Englis
h
round

man
metal

bowls
sleepin
bag
g

red

Opinion

Size

Age

Shape

Colour

Material

Origin

Purpose

Nice

Small

Old

Square

Black

Plastic

British

Racing

Ugly

Big

New

Circular

Blue

Cotton

American Running

Choose the correct adjective order.

Q1 - I bought a pair of _____
shoes.
black leather

Q6 - He's ____ man.

an unfriendly rich
a rich unfriendly

leather black

Q2 - It was a ____ car.

red fast

Q7 - It's ____ phone.

a mobile expensive
an expensive mobile

fast red

Q3 - It's a ____ building.

big round

Q8 - It's ____ village.

an old lovely
a lovely old

round big

Q4 - I bought ____ knife.

a Swiss army
an army Swiss

Q5 - It's ____ film.

a beautiful old
an old beautiful

Q9 - The ____ visitors were

Japanese.
two last
last two

Q10 - He's got ____ eyes.

blue big
big blue

Adjective Order - Exercises

Q11 - It's a ____ house.
nice new
new nice

Q12 - It's ____ airline.

a popular American
an American popular

1. Which is the correct order?

a small Canadian thin lady
a Canadian small thin lady
a small thin Canadian lady
a thin small Canadian lady
2. Which is the correct order?
a carving steel new knife
a new steel carving knife
a steel new carving knife
a new carving steel knife
3. Which is the correct order?
a beautiful blue sailing boat
a blue beautiful sailing boat
a sailing beautiful blue boat
a blue sailing beautiful boat
4. Which is the correct order?
an old wooden square table
a square wooden old table
an old square wooden table
a wooden old square table
5. Which is the correct order?
an new French exciting band
a French new exciting band
an exciting French new band
an exciting new French band
6. Which is the correct order?
a red big plastic hat
a big red plastic hat
a plastic big red hat
a bit plastic red hat
7. Which is the correct order?
a small Japanese serving bowl
a Japanese small serving bowl
a small serving Japanese bowl
a serving small Japanese bowl
8. Which is the correct order?
a cotton dirty old tie
a dirty cotton old tie
an old cotton dirty tie
a dirty old cotton tie

Q13 - It's ____ company

a family old
an old family

Q14 - It's a ____ restaurant.

cheap good
good cheap

Complete the following sentences using the correct adjective order. Use commas
between the adjectives if you have three or more.

Maria has ______ ________ _________ ________ hair.

black, beautiful, thick

I saw the _______ ________ ________ table this morning.

wooden, ugliest, round

She looks so elegant in her ________ _______ ________ coat.

wool, Italian, long

That is the _________ ________ _________ sculpture in this museum.

metal, most unusual, modern

They bought a lot of ________ ________ ________ furniture on the trip.

Indian, antique, interesting

1. At home there is a __________________table in the dining room. (beautiful,

wooden, square)
2. I was offered_____________ring by
beautiful square w At home there is

my husband. (gold, a/n, unusual)

3. My grandmother has
an unusual gold

I w as offered * ri

knitted______________sweater for me. (woolen, new, nice, a)

4. I saw____________movie with
a nice new w ooll

My grandmother h

friends at home. (a/n, American, old, interesting)

5. It may rain ! There
an interesting old

I saw * movie w it

are_____________clouds floating in the air. (black, big, rain, many)

6. It was such_____________day that
big black

It may rain ! There

we decided to go out for a walk. (sunny, lovely, cool, a)

7. My daughter
a lovely sunny

It w as such * day

has_______________hair. (black, long, beautiful)

8. Last week, I
beautiful long blac My daughter has

visited____________village in a remote place. (little, charming, a/n, old)

9. The gallery exhibited
a lovely little old

Last w eek, I visite

mainly______________paintings. (old, French, strange)

10. John was
strange old Frenc

The gallery exhib

given________________kitten by his sister. (little, a/n, adorable, black)

11. It started to rain so I
an adorable little b John w as given *

opened________________umbrella. (red and yellow, a/n, enormous)

12. I inherited _____________house

an enormous red

It started to rain s

built in 1860. (old, picturesque, a/n)

picturesque old

13. _______________car was parked

I came into a * ho

opposite
my house. (Italian, blue, sleek, a/n)
Name:
_________________________________Grade:___Date:
____________Score:_____________

Rewrite the following phrases using the correct adjective order. Use commas
between the adjectives if you have three or more adjectives.
I.
1 warm beach a sandy beautiful

2 film handsome American a/n actor

3 a/n teacher intelligent part-time likeable

4 balloon A plastic red hot-air huge

5 A basement apartment fully-furnished lovely

6 A dog black pedigree friendly

7 strange small A box square metal

8 bag. beautiful A travel leather old

II.
1. beautiful Japanese car a/n old

2. big wooden rectangular tables

A beautiful old Ja

Some

3. small cake A round delicious

Some big rectang

A delicious small

4. strong rapper black French

short the young

5. watch gold my modern

A strong short yo *

valuable

6. carpet new Chinese charming

My valuable mode *

red their small

7. old black big one Canadian

Their charming sm *

box

8. small necklace silver charming

One big old black

a/n

9. proverb Chinese interesting

A charming small

short a/n