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The order of adjectives

Examples: A nice (opinion) young (fact)girl.

               A tasty (opinion) English (fact) cheese.

B.Adjectives of fact respect a certain order.

1)size/length... 2)shape/ width... 3)age... 4)colour... 5)origin... 6)material.

Examples: A big green car (size comes before colour)

               An old French woman (age comes before origin)

C.We say, "The last two hours" and not " The two last hours."

    We say, " The next five weeks" and not "The five next weeks" etc.

INSTRUCTIONS: Put the adjectives in the correct order.

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1. A beautiful big oldold beautiful bigbig old beautifulI don't know car.

2. horrible old leatherold horrible leatherhorrible leather oldI don't know shoes.

3. A beautiful long woolenbeautiful woolen longlong beautiful woolenI don't know jumper.

4. A large brown woodenbrown large wooden boxwooden large brownI don't know box.

5. The first two Americantwo first AmericanAmerican two firstI don't know films.

6. A round brown smallsmall round brownsmall brown roundI don't know dog.

7. big white oldold white bigbig old whiteI don't know trousers.

8. nice big greengreen big nicenice green bigI don't know eyes.

9. A silk long blacklong black silkblack long silkI don't know coat.

10. The last three brickbrick three lastthree last brickI don't know houses.