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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 big old beautifulbeautiful big oldold beautiful bigI don't know car.

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

3. A beautiful long woolenlong beautiful woolenbeautiful woolen longI don't know jumper.

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

5. The American two firstfirst two Americantwo first AmericanI don't know films.

6. A round brown smallsmall brown roundsmall round brownI don't know dog.

7. big white oldbig old whiteold white bigI don't know trousers.

8. nice green bignice big greengreen big niceI don't know eyes.

9. A silk long blackblack long silklong black silkI don't know coat.

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