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Today we're going to talk about adjective order,
the order in which adjectives are used in English.
First of all, you need to understand that this is all very natural for native speakers.
So they understand it, they use this order automatically, they do not think about it.
But as for those who study English, we need to remember the order
and use adjectives correctly.
So using the first adjective we express our opinion if we want to.
We could say amazing, wonderful, terrific, great and so on.
Or horrible, terrible, awful, skanky and some other adjectives.
a lot of them, which demonstrate our opinion.
Secondly, we talk about the size, the height or the length.
So we can say big, huge, enormous, massive,
small, tiny, teeny, tall, short and other adjectives
expressing size, height and length.
Thirdly, we talk about the physical quality.
So something can be soft and fluffy
or hard, rough, solid, thick and thin, smooth, blunt, sharp and so on.
Fourthly, we'll talk about age: young, old, ancient, mature, immature, teenage, modern.
Then we talk about shape, so something can be square, round, cylindrical, circular, oval and so on.
Then we talk about the color: red, green, yellow, purple, orange, aquamarine, white, blue, black.
After that we talk about the origin, something can be English, Chinese,
Russian, French, Japanese, American.
After that, we talk about material: plastic,
cotton, glass, metal, gold, silver, wooden, silk, synthetic.
And finally, we talk about the purpose: cleaning, washing, scrubbing, cooking, polishing.
Usually, here we use the ing form.
Now let's practice a little bit.
I,m going to give you a list of adjectives with a noun and you need to put them in the correct order.
So the first list of adjectives is Japanese, pink, lovely and small.
I'm talking about a phone here. So what order should we use?
A lovely small pink Japanese phone.
About seven years ago I used to have a lovely small pink Japanese phone.
What kind of phone did you have about seven years ago?
Write it down, create your own sentence and practice using adjectives.
So we have lovely - group number one, opinion; small - group number two, size;
pink - group number six, color and Japanese - group number seven, origin.
The next list for you to practice is young, Italian, tall and the noun is sailor.
She met a tall young Italian sailor.
The next list is blue beautiful long.
I'm talking about a dress here.
I've just bought a beautiful long blue dress.
The next list of words for you to practise.
Big, green, old, and the noun is car.
I love that really big old green car parked over there.
The next list: narrow, plastic, long and we use the noun brush.
It's a long narrow plastic brush.
And the last practice for you, take a look at the list of the adjectives you are supposed to use.
And let's check. She was a beautiful tall thin young dark-haired Scottish woman.
Okay, that's it. Now I want you to create as many examples as possible for you to practise.
Use different groups, adjectives from different groups.
Find adjectives which are not listed, add your own.
Practise, because practice makes perfect.
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