ADJECTIVE ORDER ADJECTIVE ORDER

Lic. Cecilia Mayanga Pedemonte Lic. Cecilia Mayanga Pedemonte

 In English, it is common to use more than one adjective before a noun -- for example, "He's a silly young fool," or "she's a smart, energetic woman." When you use more than one adjective, you have to put them in the right order, according to type. These slides will explain the different types of adjectives and the correct order for them.

The basic types of adjectives

1. Opinion An opinion adjective explains what you think about something (other people may not agree with you). Examples: silly, beautiful, horrible, difficult

2. Size A size adjective, of course, tells you how big or small something is. Examples: large, tiny, enormous, little 3. Age An age adjective tells you how young or old something or someone is. Examples: ancient, new, young, old

4. Shape A shape adjective describes the shape of something. Examples: square, round, flat, rectangular 5. Colour A colour adjective, of course, describes the colour of something. Examples: blue, pink, reddish, grey

6. Origin An origin adjective describes where something comes from. Examples: French, lunar, American, eastern, Greek 7. Material A material adjective describes what something is made from. Examples: wooden, metal, cotton, paper

8. Purpose A purpose adjective describes what something is used for. These adjectives often end with "-ing". Examples: sleeping (as in "sleeping bag"), roasting (as in "roasting tin")

Opinion

Size

Age

Shape

Colour

Origin

Material

Purpose

a silly

young

English

man

huge

round

metal

bowl

small

red

sleeping

bag

1.-Which is the correct order? a) a small Canadian thin lady b) a Canadian small thin lady c) a small thin Canadian lady d) a thin small Canadian lady 2.-Which is the correct order? a) a carving steel new knife b) a new steel carving knife c) a steel new carving knife d) a new carving steel knife 3.-Which is the correct order? a) a beautiful blue sailing boat b) a blue beautiful sailing boat c) a sailing beautiful blue boat d) a blue sailing beautiful boat 4.-Which is the correct order? a) an old wooden square table b) a square wooden old table c) an old square wooden table d) a wooden old square table

a) b) c) d) a) b) c) d) a) b) c) d) a) b) c) d)

5Which is the correct order? an new French exciting band a French new exciting band an exciting French new band an exciting new French band 6.-Which is the correct order? a red big plastic hat a big red plastic hat a plastic big red hat a bit plastic red hat 7.-Which is the correct order? a small Japanese serving bowl a Japanese small serving bowl a small serving Japanese bowl a serving small Japanese bowl 8.- Which is the correct order? a cotton dirty old tie a dirty cotton old tie an old cotton dirty tie a dirty old cotton tie

Put in order these Adjectives 1. round / small / reading / lamp 2. German / old / yellow / car 3. wooden / huge / sailing / ship 4. physics / boring / old / teacher 5. slim / Canadian / handsome / snowboarder 6. sugar / blue / round / bowl

 Put the adjectives in brackets in the correct position. 1.- a beautiful table ( wooden / round ) 2.- an unusual ring (gold) 3.- a new pullover (nice ) 4.- A new pullover ( green ) 5.- an old house (beautiful) 6.- Black gloves ( leather ) 7.- An American film (old) 8.- A long face (thin) 9.- big clouds (black)

10.- a sunny day (lovely) 11.- A wide avenue(long) 12.- A metal box ( black / small) 14.- a big cat (fat / black) 15.- A little village ( old / lovely) 16.- long hair ( black / beautiful) 17.- an old painting ( interesting / French ) 18 .- An enormous umbrella ( red / yellow)

ADVERBS ADVERBS
Lic. CECILIA MAYANGA PEDEMONTE.

What is an adverb?
Basically, most adverbs tell you how, where, or when something is done. In other words, they describe the manner, place, or time of an action. Here are some examples:

Type

Adverb

Example

Manner

slowly

Jane drives slowly.

Place

here

The party is going to take place here. I called him yesterday.

Time

yesterday

How to recognize an adverb

Many adverbs end with the suffix -LY. Most of these are created by adding -LY to the end of an adjective, like this:

Adjective

Adverb

slow delightful hopeless aggressive

slowly delightfully hopelessly aggressively

 However, this is NOT a reliable way to find out whether a word is an adverb or not, for two reasons: many adverbs do NOT end in -LY (some are the same as the adjective form), and many words which are NOT adverbs DO end in -LY (such as kindly, friendly, elderly and lonely, which are adjectives). Here are some examples of adverbs which are the same as adjectives:

Adjective

Adverb

fast

fast

late

late

early

early

 The best way to tell if a word is an adverb is to try making a question, for which the answer is the word. If the question uses how, where or when, then the word is probably an adverb. Here is an example:

Word in context

Question

Adverb?

Junko plays tennis aggressively. They have a small house. Matthew called the police immediately.

How does Junko play tennis? What kind of house do they have?

Yes -- uses HOW.

No -- uses WHAT KIND OF, so this is an adjective.

When did Yes -- uses WHEN. Matthew call the police?

 You can learn this language easily. The pianist is playing slowly. She spoke interestingly about her ideas. Joe ate hungrily. She plays the piano very well.

Examples

HOW TO MAKE LY ADVERBS

Usually: adjective + ly quick ---- quickly real ---- really complete ----- completely slow ----- slowly -y --- ily easy ------ easily happy ------ happily

 -ble ----- bly possible ------ possibly Write the adverbs Wrong thirsty Final probable Sincere usual Loud nice

wonderful cold unhappy comfortable

Look at these underlined word It is and adverb, isnt it? 1.- Be careful! The iron is very hot. 2.-A microwave can cook food fast. 3.- Jun sang very loudly. 4.-This bacon is lovely! 5.-Joe dresses very informally. 6.- She's a very strange woman! 7.-I'm free tomorrow. Shall we meet at five? 8.-Jan is very helpful if you have a problem with your computer. 9.-Sam walks very shakily, because he's getting old. 10.-I get up early every morning.

 Choose and adjective or an adverb. Could I have a . word with you? (quick / quickly) She walked away . (quick / quickly) This is a .. Train it stops everywhere. (slow / slowly) He talked very . About his work. (interesting / interestingly) Youve cooked the meat ..(beautiful / beautifully) Ive got an job for you.( easy / easily

 She writes in . English . (perfect / perfectly) I sing very . (bad / badly) I feel . Today. ( happy / happily) You seem very . (angry/angrily) Annes a .. Swimmer. (strong / strongly) Could you talk more please? (quiet / quietly)

 Mary waited in the hospital until her mum returned from the Dermatologys room. (patient / patiently) Mr Jones was very ..during the operation. (nervous / nervously) (Luck / Luckily )The Neurologists didnt miss their flight. Dr . Tomas operated his patient (careful / carefully) Robert is a very .doctor actually. (good/well)