Monday, April 4, 2011

Order of Adjectives


D Determiners

Pre-determiners = all, once, twice, ten times, double, half, both.

Determiners = articles (an, a, the), possessive pronouns, (his, my, your, their, whose, etc.), numbers (one, two, etc.), indefinite pronouns (few, more, each, every, some, any, etc.), demonstratives (this, that, these, those, such), another, other

Post-determiners = 1st, 2nd …, few, next, last,

O Opinion = nice, ugly, beautiful, expensive, cheap…

S Size = big, tall, short, small, huge, gigantic…

A Age = old, new, antique,

PAR Participles = Painted, fixed, built…

SH Shapes = round, square, rectangular …

C Color = red, yellow, blue …

O Origin (religions) = Mexican, American, Catholic…

M Material = wooden, plastic, iron…

A Adjectives(general)= hiking, cutting, sawing …

N Noun adjectives = Ex: mountain bike, magi tricks, horse shoe, love story…

Notes: When we have 2 adj or more of the same kind we separate them with a comma or with and.

Examples

All the next hard big English exams will be applied on Monday.

A nice big new painted white Spanish brick house was bought by him.

He ate a delicious, huge red Californian apple.

Jain wore the last cheap leather hiking boots on his last trip to the Everest.

These smart just graduated Chinese students won the 1st important, big writing contest.

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