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Adjective Order

This document categorizes and provides examples of different types of adjectives including determinative, cardinal, opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, and purpose adjectives. Determinative adjectives include words like "the", "some", and "several". Cardinal adjectives are numbers like "first" and "two". Opinion adjectives express opinions or judgments. The other categories provide adjectives that describe attributes of nouns such as size, age, shape, color, material, and purpose or function.

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Adjective Order

This document categorizes and provides examples of different types of adjectives including determinative, cardinal, opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, and purpose adjectives. Determinative adjectives include words like "the", "some", and "several". Cardinal adjectives are numbers like "first" and "two". Opinion adjectives express opinions or judgments. The other categories provide adjectives that describe attributes of nouns such as size, age, shape, color, material, and purpose or function.

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ADJECTIVE

Determinative Ordinary Cardinal Opinion/Quality


The, this, that,several, some First, second, third One, two, three An opinion adjective explains what you think about something (other people may not agree with you). Examples: silly, beautiful, horrible, difficult A size adjective, of course, tells you how big or small something is. Examples: large, tiny, enormous, little An age adjective tells you how young or old something or someone is. Examples: ancient, new, young, old A shape adjective describes the shape of something. Examples: square, round, flat, rectangular A colour adjective, of course, describes the colour of something. Examples: blue, pink, reddish, grey An origin adjective describes where something comes from. Examples: French, lunar, American, eastern, Greek A material adjective describes what something is made from. Examples: wooden, metal, cotton, paper 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") People.thing

Size Age Shape Colour Origin Material

Purpose V_ing Main NOUN

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