Adjective word order

The first 3 categories of adjectives are:

• origin, material, purpose

• opinion, size, age

• color, origin, material

• shape, color, origin

An example of adjective of shape is:

• wooden

• square

• new

• expensive

An example of adjective of age is:

• awful

• plastic

• Spanish

• new

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.1.1F

Andrea had a __________ in her hair yesterday

• yellow nice bow

• nice yellow bow

• bow nice yellow

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1D

CCSS.L.5.2A

CCSS.L.7.2A

An example of adjective of opinion is:

• square

• expensive

• small

• Italian

Alexsandra was wearing a ________ hat

• big green-yellow

• big green and yellow

• yellow and green big

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1G

Mariana lost a ___________

• small white cat

• cat small white

• white small cat

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1D

CCSS.L.5.2A

CCSS.L.7.2A

Mathieu bought ________ oranges

• great some big

• big great some

• some great big

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.1.1F

Lucy met ________ people at the conference

• very smart two

• two very smart

• very two smart

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.1.1F

The cookies that you

• smell delicious baked

• baked smell delicious

• delicious smell baked

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.3A

CCSS.L.7.1C