Choose the correct adjective order.

Q1 - I bought a pair of _____ shoes.

black leather
leather black
Q2 - It was a ____ car.
red fast
fast red
Q3 - It's a ____ building.
big round
round big
Q4 - I bought ____ knife.
a Swiss army
an army Swiss
Q5 - It's ____ film.
a beautiful old
an old beautiful
Q6 - He's ____ man.

an unfriendly rich
a rich unfriendly
Q7 - It's ____ phone.
a mobile expensive
an expensive mobile
Q8 - It's ____ village.
an old lovely
a lovely old
Q9 - The ____ visitors were Japanese.
two last
last two
Q10 - He's got ____ eyes.
blue big
big blue
Q11 - It's a ____ house.
nice new
new nice

Q12 - It's ____ airline.

a popular American
an American popular

a family old
an old family
Q14 - It's a ____ restaurant.

Q13 - It's ____ company

cheap good
good cheap

1. Which is the correct order?

an exciting French new band

a small Canadian thin lady

an exciting new French band

a Canadian small thin lady

a small thin Canadian lady

6. Which is the correct order?

a thin small Canadian lady

a red big plastic hat

a big red plastic hat

2. Which is the correct order?

a plastic big red hat

a carving steel new knife

a bit plastic red hat

a new steel carving knife

a steel new carving knife

7. Which is the correct order?

a new carving steel knife

a small Japanese serving bowl

a Japanese small serving bowl

3. Which is the correct order?

a small serving Japanese bowl

a beautiful blue sailing boat

a serving small Japanese bowl

a blue beautiful sailing boat

a sailing beautiful blue boat

8. Which is the correct order?

a blue sailing beautiful boat

a cotton dirty old tie

a dirty cotton old tie

4. Which is the correct order?

an old cotton dirty tie

an old wooden square table

a dirty old cotton tie

a square wooden old table

an old square wooden table
a wooden old square table

5. Which is the correct order?

an new French exciting band
a French new exciting band

Complete the following sentences using the correct adjective order. Use commas between the
adjectives if you have three or more.

Maria has ______ ________ _________ ________ hair.

black, beautiful, thick
I saw the _______ ________ ________ table this morning.
wooden, ugliest, round
She looks so elegant in her ________ _______ ________ coat.
wool, Italian, long
That is the _________ ________ _________ sculpture in this museum.
metal, most unusual, modern
They bought a lot of ________ ________ ________ furniture on the trip.
Indian, antique, interesting

1. At home there is a __________________table in the dining room. (beautiful, wooden,

square)
2. I was offered_____________ring by my husband. (gold, a/n, unusual)
3. My grandmother has knitted______________sweater for me. (woolen, new, nice, a)
4. I saw____________movie with friends at home. (a/n, American, old, interesting)
5. It may rain ! There are_____________clouds floating in the air. (black, big, rain, many)
6. It was such_____________day that we decided to go out for a walk. (sunny, lovely, cool,
a)
7. My daughter has_______________hair. (black, long, beautiful)
8. Last week, I visited____________village in a remote place. (little, charming, a/n, old)
9. The gallery exhibited mainly______________paintings. (old, French, strange)
10. John was given________________kitten by his sister. (little, a/n, adorable, black)
11. It started to rain so I opened________________umbrella. (red and yellow, a/n,
enormous)
12. I inherited _____________house built in 1860. (old, picturesque, a/n)
13. _______________car was parked opposite my house. (Italian, blue, sleek, a/n)

Rewrite the following phrases using the correct adjective order. Use commas between the adjectives
if you have three or more adjectives.

1 warm beach a sandy beautiful

2 film handsome American a/n actor

3 a/n teacher intelligent part-time likeable

4 balloon A plastic red hot-air huge

5 A basement apartment fully-furnished lovely

6 A dog black pedigree friendly

7 strange small A box square metal

8 bag. beautiful A travel leather old

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beautiful Japanese car a/n old

big wooden rectangular tables Some
small cake A round delicious
strong rapper black French short the young
watch gold my modern valuable
carpet new Chinese charming red their small
old black big one Canadian box
small necklace silver charming a/n
proverb Chinese interesting short a/n