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2. Examples:
a tall young blonde Italian lady
a short fat 3 old man
a big square dining room
We generally put the adjectives referring to the age of someone or
something before adjectives of colour; before adjectives of age,
adjectives of shape; and before adjectives of shape,
adjectives of size.
a) a (travelling, alarm, round) ____________________ clock
b) a (vegetable, huge, long, green) ____________________ trailer
c) a (round, bread, golden, wicker, big) ____________________ basket
d) a(n) (oval, small, iron) ____________________ shield
e) a (huge, bright, flying) ____________________ saucer
3. Examples:
a gorgeous slim girl
a beautiful long beige French silk nightdress
a beautiful intelligent woman
Adjectives of opinion have the most marginal position. In general,
we can say that the more objective an adjective is, the nearer to
the noun it comes. For instance gorgeous goes before slim
because gorgeous expresses a quality that depends on our
viewpoint: it is a more subjective adjective than slim. This is
why we may come across other adjectives positions4.
5. Examples:
Hes fair, short and ugly.
Hes an ugly short fair boy.
a black-and-white film5/a film in black and white
a violet and red wall/a red and violet wall
an attractive (and) beautiful Portuguese girl
Predicative adjectives6 are generally joined by and, as in the
first example. None the less, we sometimes omit it in order to give
more speed to the text. Attributive adjectives are not normally
linked by and, unless they express a similar quality. In this
case, it is also left out at times, as in the last instance.
a) (red, yellow) ____________________ roses
b) He seems to be (intelligent, friendly, noble) ____________________
c) a (good-looking, pleasant, tall, slim) ____________________ woman
d) a (brown, Castilian, white) ____________________ horse
e) a (plastic, TV, metal) ____________________ aerial
6. Revision exercise.
a) a (rectangular, cream, modern) ____________________ bathroom
b) (silken, pretty, long) ____________________ hair
c) a (dreadful, pink, old) ____________________ chinawear
d) a (processing, new, central, tiny) ____________________ unit
e) a (tired, local, camera) ____________________ crew
f ) (vast, green, beautiful) ____________________ plains
g) a (vegetable, large, Greek) ____________________ trailer
h) a (middle-aged, good-looking, black, pop) ____________________ star