Adjective Orders

NOUN PHRASE
(ADJECTIVE ORDERS)

BY MS. ANITA

Adjective serves to describe a noun. When defining a noun as an attributive adjective (in front of the noun), more than one adjective may be used.

Adjective order, namely adjective order based on category. Adjectives that are opinion are usually mentioned first followed by those based on facts.

ADJECTIVE ORDERS

EXAMPLE

That car is black, extravagant, and expensive (NOT ADJECTIVE ORDER)

It is an expensive extravagant black car (ADJECTIVE ORDER)

COMPONENT OF ADJECTIVE ORDERS

• Quantity : One, two, three, etc…, some, any, much,many, a few, several

• Opinion : Awesome, nice, important, beautiful, gorgeous, bad, naughty, neat, amazing, wonderful, cruel, fierce, tough, original

• Size : Big, small, tiny, gigantic, large, wide, broad, enormous, huge, massive, colossal

• Physical Quality :Soft, rough, thick, thin, well-built, slim, fat, healthy, sick

• Shape : Circle, rectangular, triangular, flat, hexagonal, narrow, square

• Age : Old, young, newborn, classic, traditional, ancient, new, youngest, eldest, oldest 

• Color : Red, white, blue, orange, green, pink, silver 

• Origin : American, Indonesian, Asian, Chinese, Javanese, Sundanese, French

Note: From those adjective orders, you don't have to use them all. You can choose your preference but you must use it in sequence.

• Material : Cotton, iron, flour, gold, glass, metallic, wooden, plastic, melamine

• Type : Time-saving, free, part-time, on sale, two-sided, all in one

• Purpose : Cleaning, washing, swimming, sports, traveling, office, sleeping, eating, cooking 

EXAMPLE

1. All the girls fell in love with the handsome new American teacher.

Pembahasan urutan adjective order yang benar Handsome ( Opinion) New ( age ) American ( origin )



2. It's in the large blue metal container.

Pembahasan uruta kata sifat yang benar adalah Large ( size) blue ( color) Metal (bahan pembuatan )

LET'S CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING

Multiple Choice

we used t have lunch on this..........................

• wooden round black table

• round black wooden table

• wooden black raund table

• black round wooden table

Drag and Drop

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Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

her

long

black

hair

his

short

blonde

Multiple Choice

Jane really loves the _________ jewelry box that her parents gave her as a birthday present.

• 
  nice wooden brown  

• wooden brown nice 

• 
  brown wooden nice

• 
  nice brown wooden

Multiple Choice

He made a toy as a birthday gift to his daughter. It is a _________ house.

• 
  beautiful big pink

• 
  pink beautiful big 

• beautiful pink big

• 
  big pink beautiful

Multiple Choice

We ate some _________ apples that we had bought at the supermarket the night before.

• 
  American delicious red

• delicious American red

• delicious red American

• red American delicious

Multiple Choice

We will never forget that _________ trip in Korea.

• training long memorable

• memorable training long

• long memorable training

• memorable long training

Multiple Choice

There is a _________ bag at the corner of the room.

• small black plastic

• small plastic black

• black small plastic

• plastic black small

Multiple Choice

Our new neighbor just bought a ____

• 
  Car brand-new Mercedes

• Mercedes brand-new car

• Mercedes car brand-new

• Brand-new Mercedes car

Multiple Choice

Kwame bought a _____ bag

• 
  large white leather

• large leather white

• white large leather

• leather large white

Multiple Choice

Ibadan is the ____ city in Nigeria

• larger

• largest

• more larger

• most largest

Multiple Choice

He is the _____ in the group

• handsomer

• most handsome

• more handsomer

• most handsomer

Multiple Choice

She went home and sat on her _________ bed after a hard day of work.

• 
  wooden old comfortable

• 
  old comfortable wooden

• 
  old wooden comfortable

• 
  comfortable old wooden

Reorder

Reorder the following

• a

• very

• expensive

• golden

• Rolex

1

2

3

4

5

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

Reorder

Reorder the following

• beautiful

• little

• antique

• French

• chair

1

2

3

4

5

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

Reorder

Reorder the following

• stunning

• large

• red

• silky

• dress

1

2

3

4

5

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

Reorder

Reorder the following

• delicious

• small

• round

• cheese

• cake

1

2

3

4

5

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

Multiple Choice

She told me not to forget to return her …

• Red sleeping warm bag

• 
  Red warm sleeping bag

• Warm sleeping red bag

• Warm red sleeping bag

Multiple Choice

The … will be adopted tomorrow.

• Funny grey fat cat

• Grey funny fat cat

• Funny fat grey cat

• 
  Fat funny grey cat

Multiple Choice

Which sentence uses the correct order of adjectives?

• 
  I like that really big red old antique tractor in the museum

• 
  I like that old, red, really big antique tractor in the museum.

• 
  I like that really big old red antique tractor in the museum

• 
  I like that really big antique tractor in the museum

Multiple Choice

Which sentence uses the correct order of adjectives?

• My brother rode a beautiful big black Friesian horse in the parade.

• My brother rode a beautiful Friesian big black horse in the parade.

• 
  My brother rode a Friesian horse in the parade.

• My brother rode a big black beautiful Friesian horse in the parade