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Modifying nouns with adjectives and nouns

S+V Adjective Noun

I + bought a beautiful skirt

I + bought a skirt beautiful (X)

✽The form of an adjective does not change in English

✽Adjectives tell you more about nouns.
✽Adjectives can go before a noun or after the BE verb
☆ It is a big ball.
☆ The elephant is big.
✽Adjectives that are not followed by a noun
do not have an article in front.
☆ He is a smart man. (O)
☆ He is a clever. (X)

Adjectives

big good nice mad

young small beautiful interesting
red hot ugly funny
Nouns

Adjectives
computer book man woman
tree mouse strawberry dog
water wallet brother country

Word orders of adjective

Large + color a large red apple

Adj. Adj. Incorrect : a red large apple

Beautiful + adjective a beautiful young girl

Adj. a beautiful small cat

Usual word order of adjectives

1 2 3 4 5 6

OPINION SIZE AGE COLOR NATIONALITY MATERIAL

beautiful large young red Chinese metal

delicious tall old blue Greek glass

middle
kind little yellow Mexican plastic
-aged
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Practice
Choose whether the word is a noun or adjective.
Then make a sentence for each word.

Ex) kind noun adjective

 My little brother is very kind to me.

1 blanket noun adjective

2 tall noun adjective

3 delicious noun adjective

4 shoes noun adjective

5 lazy noun adjective

Unscramble the words to create a sentence.
Write the correct sentence and underline the adjective.

Adjectives
1 wearing / Gordon / shirt / a / white / is.

2 Flora / her / is / favorite / pink dress / wearing.

3 our / is / the / computer / This / room / in / school.

Choose the correct answer and

complete the sentence.

1 My dog has eyes and small feet.

1
A short B big C tall
2
2 Johnny has a bag.

A red B blue C white

3
3 There are many chocolates.

A delicious B smart C pink

4
4 Shawn sits in a taxi.

A red B white C yellow

5 Penny likes tea.

5
A interesting B milk C boring
Try More

Circle the adjective for the underlined noun

in each sentence.
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1 Flora likes hot tea.
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2 My grandmother is a smart woman.

3 The king eats some sweet jam and brown cookies.

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4 Doris will bring a big pie to the barbecue party.

5 She likes have brown sugar in her tea.

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Place the adjectives in the correct order

to complete the sentence.

Ex) tall / glass  It is a tall glass vase.

1 golden / delicious They are some pies.

2 Greek / yellow There is some yogurt.

3 brown / big They are cows.

4 black / long It's hair.

5 new / wonderful It's a poem.

Write an adjective-noun combination.

Adjectives
Ex) A cup of tea with milk in it. - milk tea

1 A cup that has tea in it.

2 Presents given to Joanna on her birthday.

3 Doris is using limes to make juice.

4 Shawn reads a book with a story inside.