Word Order for Adjectives Exercise

Word Order for Adjectives Exercise

Below you can see a diagram explaining the position of adjectives before a noun. Use it to answer the questions which follow.

OPINION

CONDITION

SIZE

AGE

COLOUR

ORIGIN

MATERIAL

NOUN

Order the words in the boxes.

my teacher old maths smelly 1 ____________________________________	new a perfect system 8 ___________________________________
black small box Turkish a old 2 ___________________________________	18th century a Scottish fantastic castle 9 ___________________________________
man a fat friendly young 3 ___________________________________	a businessman horrible greedy 10 ___________________________________
tall our headmaster boring 4 ___________________________________	a big old brown bear 11 ___________________________________
wooden dark a table long 5 ___________________________________	student self-righteous a middle-class 12 ___________________________________
city a Spanish beautiful old 6 ___________________________________	spoilt boy nasty a little 13 ___________________________________
arts nice teacher French our 7 ___________________________________	green-eyed gorgeous black-haired a girl 14 ___________________________________

 

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