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1 My smelly old maths teacher 8 a perfect new system

my teacher old maths smelly new a perfect system

2 a small old black Turkish box 9 a fantastic 18th century Scottish castle

black small box Turkish a old 18th century a Scottish fantastic castle

3 a friendly fat young man 10 a horrible greedy businessman

man a fat friendly young a business horrible greedy

4 our boring tall headmaster 11 a big old brown bear

tall our headmaster boring a big old brown bear

5 a long dark wooden table 12 a self-righteous middle-class student

wooden dark a table long student self-righteous a middle-class

6 a beautiful old Spanish city 13 a nasty spoilt little boy

city a Spanish beautiful old spoilt boy nasty a little

7 our nice French arts teacher 14 a gorgeous black-haired green-eyed girl

arts nice teacher our French green-eyed gorgeous black-haired a girl


Word Order for Adjectives Exercise at Auto-English

Below you can see a diagram explaining the position of adjectives before a noun. Use it to answer the questions
which follow.

OPINION CONDITION SIZE AGE COLOUR ORIGIN MATERIAL NOUN

Order the words in the boxes.

my teacher old maths smelly new a perfect system

1 ___________________________________ 8 ___________________________________

black small box Turkish a old 18th century a Scottish fantastic castle

2 ___________________________________ 9 ___________________________________

man a fat friendly young a businessman horrible greedy

3 ___________________________________ 10 ___________________________________

tall our headmaster boring a big old brown bear

4 ___________________________________ 11 ___________________________________

wooden dark a table long student self-righteous a middle-class

5 ___________________________________ 12 ___________________________________

city a Spanish beautiful old spoilt boy nasty a little

6 ___________________________________ 13 ___________________________________

arts nice teacher French our green-eyed gorgeous black-haired a girl

7 ___________________________________ 14 ___________________________________

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