Style (1) Adjective order When you use more than one adjective in front of a noun, you normally put them in this order: Adjectives describing clothes opinion age pattern /colour material style horrible old blue cotton short-sleeved fabulous. new stripy silk full length beautiful second-hand flowery suede v-neck scruffy brandnew check leather high-heeled So, for example, you could talk about: ‘beautiful new black leather shoes a scruffy brown suede jacket 1 smart blue cotton shirt a fabulous ald flowery full-length dress a stripy cashmere v-neck sweater Other adjectives For all other adjectives, the usual order is: opinion adjective; size’ adjective; colour adjective; fact adjective (Fact adjectives put the noun in a particular class.) So, for example, you could talk about: a beautiful big German car large blue rectangular pool of water rapid technological advance a sweet red apple Noun modifiers When a noun is used before an adjective, it comes immediately before the noun, after all other adjectives. a successfull American software company | the British ear industry Comparatives Comparative and superlative adjectives normally come in front of all other adjectives. Digger commercial ships the prettiest little old cottage in the village Adjectives after the verb be When you have two or more adjectives after be, you usually join the last two with an | was tired and angry. The weather that day was cola cloudy, and’ windy.14 (1) Practice 11 Rowsite the descriptions ofthe man in the picture putting the word in italics into the most natural place in the sentence. He's wearing... 2) awhite tshirt, sleeveless 5 hit b) oldjeans. —bagey ©) white Nike trainers. brand-new d) abackto-front black cap. baseball 2 Complete the descriptions of the woman in the picture using the words in the box. Use two adjectives for each item and put the adjectives in the most natural order. [white Piackancwhite high-heeled | flowery stripy knee-length black sun She's wearing. a) a_black and white ectipy_ jacket. ba skirt a shoes. 4 hat. Put the adjectives in italics into the most natural order. a) We visited this temple. 1000-year-old incredible b) The hotel was full of paintings. 1960s unusual 9 Westayed ina ht. teach — wooden delightful 4) She lives in a house bythe sea. old lovely whiteoashed ©) They bought me these. dolls as a souvenir, silver and gold plastic disgusting 1) Our tour guide was wearing a pair of trousers. leather amazing —_bright-pink Adjectives of ‘size’ generally come before all other ‘fact’ adjectives, but after ‘opinion’ adjectives. Choose the most natural alternative. a) She loves big baggy / baggy big clothes. b) It's five-year massive / massive five-year project ©). They're making huge technological {technological Ihuge advances. ) He drives an American old enormous / enormous old American car e) They live ina itl lovely of ite od lovely | lovely litle old cottage. Describe three things that you can see. Use at least two adjectives for each description. For example, Abig old grey building. An excellent orange dictionary. a) >) ° Describe three things that you are weari ‘two adjectives for each description. For eaxmple, A pair of old blue and grey trainers. a) b) QD ake sue) QR s