Exercise on word order of adjectives - Word и Excel - помощь в работе с программами

1. Choose the correct answers (a-c) to complete the sentences.

1 On our trip, we visited a shop selling ……… furniture.

a old beautiful Chinese

b Chinese beautiful old

c beautiful old Chinese

2 We ordered some ……… olives with our meal.

a small black Greek

b Greek black small

c black small Greek

3 My parents are buying a ……… sofa next week.

a new red comfortable

b red comfortable new

c comfortable new red

4 Our favourite singer has just married a ……… politician.

a middle-aged German tall

b tall middle-aged German

c German tall middle-aged

5 In the story, a girl finds the key to a ……… box.

a strange black antique

b black strange antique

c strange antique black

6 Look at those ……… kittens – they’re so cute!

a white young tiny

b tiny young white

c young tiny white

Answer

1 c 2 a 3 c 4 b 5 c 6 b

2. Choose the correct answers (a or b) to complete the text.

A young contestant at the Mental Calculation World Cup

There are more and more reports of child prodigies – children with exceptional talents. One of these is the 1……… maths genius Cameron Thompson. As a 2……… boy, he corrected his teacher by saying that zero isn’t the lowest number, because she had forgotten about negative numbers. A(n) 3……… girl called Priyanshi Somani won the Mental Calculation World Cup in 2010, held at the relatively 4……… university of Magdeburg. And a 5……… boy from Berlin started playing the violin at the age of two. Akim Camara has performed in front of 18,000 people, wearing a 6……… suit and playing a baby-size violin.

1 a Welsh amazing b amazing Welsh

2 a clever four-year-old b four-year-old clever

3 a Indian young b young Indian

4 a new German b German new

5 a remarkable little b little remarkable

6 a black tiny b tiny black

Answer

1 b 2 a 3 b 4 a 5 a 6 b

3. Complete each sentence with the most appropriate two adjectives below in the correct order.

ancient delicious famous Greek Italian purple

tiny Turkish white young

1 The red and ………………………… flag has a moon and a star on it.

2 The Parthenon is a(n) ………………………… temple in Athens.

3 She picked up the ………………………… boy to stop him from crying.

4 Michelangelo was a(n) ………………………… painter.

5 Let’s make a fruit salad – we can use these ………………………… grapes.

Answer

1 white Turkish 2 ancient Greek 3 tiny young

4 famous Italian 5 delicious purple

4. Choose the correct adjective. If both are correct, put a tick.

1 Don’t be afraid / frightened; the dog won’t hurt you.

2 His only alive / living relatives live in New Zealand.

3 Are you angry / annoyed because I’m late?

4 It’s a lonely / an alone life on that tiny island.

5 The glad / happy students celebrated the end of their exams with a party.

6 Shut the door quietly – your father’s asleep / sleeping.

Answer

1 ✓ 2 living 3 ✓ 4 a lonely 5 happy 6 ✓

5. Complete the sentences with the words below. Use a dictionary to help you.

alone asleep aware content cross irritable sorry sure

1 I can’t be ………………………… , but that looks like Jaime over there.

2 If your brother’s still ………………………… , he’s going to miss breakfast!

3 When I’m on holiday, I always feel ………………………… just to sit on the beach and sunbathe.

4 No one was ………………………… that the date of the test had been changed.

5 Does your sister live ………………………… or with friends?

6 She seems really ………………………… about the accident.

7 He becomes ………………………… when he hasn’t had enough sleep.

8 Emma looks really ………………………… . What did you say to make her so angry?

Answer

1 sure 2 asleep 3 content 4 aware 5 alone

6 sorry 7 irritable 8 cross

Extra exercises

1. Choose the correct adjective to complete the sentences.

1 The afraid / frightened children hid during the storm.

2 We heard angry / annoyed voices from next door.

3 There are a lot of alone / lonely old people in the world.

4 There were a lot of glad / happy faces at the party.

5 He picked up the asleep / sleeping child and put her to bed.

Answer

1 frightened 2 angry 3 lonely 4 happy 5 sleeping

2. Choose the correct words to complete the sentences.

1 The music streaming service Spotify has over 20 million providers / subscribers worldwide.

2 One of the funniest things about the show is the channel / interaction between the comedian and the audience.

3 Which provider / subscriber offers the best service?

4 The content / platform on the website isn’t good.

5 Does internet accessibility / feedback decrease the further you move away from your router?

Answer

1 subscribers 2 interaction 3 provider 4 content

5 accessibility

3. Replace the underlined words with extreme adjectives.

1 That film was very funny. ……………………………

2 We were very tired when we got home because we’d been travelling all day. ……………………………

3 My sister was really angry when I spilled coffee on her laptop. ……………………………

4 I’m really hungry because I didn’t have time for breakfast this morning. ……………………………

5 The little boy couldn’t take his eyes off the magic show. He was really interested. ……………………………

6 The actress was very frightened when she heard that someone was stalking her. ……………………………

Answer

1 hilarious 2 exhausted 3 furious 4 starving

5 fascinated 6 terrified

4. Complete the sentences with the phrases below.

be sure looks like most likely say that some kind

1 They’re ………………………… journalists, or something like that.

2 It looks to me like a festival of …………………………

3 I can’t …………………………, but I think it’s Broadway.

4 I’d ………………………… she was enjoying all the publicity.

5 It ………………………… some kind of castle, or maybe a palace.

Answer

1 most likely 2 some kind 3 be sure 4 say that

5 looks like

Источник

Do you say handsome, young, three men, or three handsome young men? Adjectives are more challenging than we think because we have to consider their order in sentences. This guide will show you the correct order of adjectives in the English language.

I provided a three-part test to help you practice your understanding of adjective order. Then, check your answer using the answer key.

Order of Adjectives

Sometimes we can use more than one suitable adjective to describe nouns, but it’s important to know what order to list them in. Follow this order when forming phrases or sentences with multiple adjectives and a noun or any noun equivalent.

1. Determiner (e.g., the, some, a, an, these, etc.)

2. Quantity (e.g., One, seven, few, etc.)

3. Opinion (e.g., delicious, intelligent, misunderstood, important, etc.)

General opinion, which is held by many (e.g., popular)
Specific opinion, which is personal (e.g., person)

4. Size (e.g., medium, small, huge, enormous, tall, etc.)

5. Age (e.g., new, old, second-newest, etc.)

6. Shape (e.g., round, geometric, square, etc.)

7. Color (e.g., red, yellowish, gray, etc.)

8. Origin/Material (e.g., American, wooden, leather, etc.)

9. Qualifier (e.g., hound dog, leather jacket, pickup truck, etc.)

Here are some examples.

Three trendy, stylish, nylon bags
Tall, black gorilla
Amazing, little, decades-old cup
A savory, old, Italian recipe

Order of Adjectives Exercise #2

Choose the correct order of adjectives.