WORD ORDER OF ADJECTIVES Adjectives like new/large/round/wooden are FACT adjectives (They give us factual information about age, size, colour, etc.) Adjectives like nice/beautiful/ugly are OPINION adjectives (They tell us what somebody thinks of something or somebody.) OPINION adjectives usually go before FACT adjectives: a nice long summer holiday, a delicious hot vegetable soup, an interesting young man, a beautiful large round wooden table Sometimes we use two or more FACT adjectives We put FACT adjectives in this order: a How big? How old? What colour? Where from? large brand-new blue Italian a a COLOUR red brown ORIGIN Spanish German Venetian MATERIAL leather glass NOUN What is it made of? woollen PURPOSE riding beer flower jumper NOUN boots mug vase QUALITY SIZE/AGE/SHAPE COLOUR ORIGIN PAST PARTICIPLE beautiful old brown French handmade Numbers usually go before adjectives: six large eggs NOUN cupboard the second big shock FIRST, NEXT and LAST most often go before one, two, three, etc the first three days my last two jobs young grey round old woollen spotty walking noun сложное, составноеCompound материалMaterial French huge dirty происхождениеOrigin рисунок, узорPattern цветColour формаShape nice возрастAge мнениеOpinion two a his Pete’s состояниеразмер/ConditionSize/ Определяющее Determiner слово It is unnatural to use more than two or three adjectives together in one phrase men jumper face shoes Task: Put the adjectives in brackets in the correct position 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) a table (wooden/round/beautiful) _ a ring (gold/unusual) _ a pullover (woolen/pink/nice/new) a house (old/ugly/Turkish) gloves (black/comfortable/leather) a film (interesting/American/old) _ a face (long/thin/good-looking) clouds (frightening/big/black) _ a day (lovely/sunny/happy) _ 10) an avenue (long/wide/noisy) 11) a painting (French/interesting/old) _ 12) an umbrella (yellow/enormous/red/expensive/Japanese)