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    B Adjectives and nouns

    We sometimes use two nouns together (see Unit 82). a glass door a computer program Here we use glass like an adjective, to describe the door. When we use another adjective as well (e.g. heavy), it comes before both the nouns. a heavy glass door a useful computer program

    C Word order
    EXAMPLES

    We order adjectives according to their meaning. This is the normal order:


    GROUP

    1 Opinion (how good?) 2 Size (how big?) 3 Most other qualities 4 Age (how old?) 5 Colour 6 Origin (where from?) 7 Material (made of?) 8 Type (what kind?) 9 Purpose (what for?) Here are some examples. a small green insect (size, colour) Japanese industrial designers (origin, type) a wonderful new face cream (opinion, age, purpose) awful plastic souvenirs (opinion, material) a long boring train journey (size, quality, type) some nice easy quiz questions (opinion, quality, purpose) a beautiful wooden picture frame (opinion, material, purpose) We sometimes put commas between adjectives in Groups 1-3 a horrible, ugly building a busy, lively, exciting city

    big leather boots 1. .. 3 . 2. .. 4

    2 The order of adjectives (A-C)


    Write a list of things to be sold at an auction. basin / sugar, antique, silver an antique silver sugar basin 1 vase / glass, old, lovely 2 mirror / wall, attractive 3 desk / modern, office 4 chairs / kitchen, red, metal 5 boat / model, splendid, old 6 stamps / postage, valuable, Australian 7 table / small, coffee, wooden

    3 The order of adjectives (A-C)


    Look at each advertisement and write the information in a single sentence. This game is new. It's for the family. And it's exciting. This is an exciting new family game. 1 This computer is for business. It's Japanese. And it's powerful. 2 This fire is electric. It's excellent. And it's small. 3 This is a chocolate bar. It's new. And it's a big bar. 4 This comedy is American. It's for television. And it's terrific. 5 These doors are aluminium. They're for your garage. And they're stylish. 6 These shoes are modern. They're for sports. And they're wonderful. This phone is a mobile. It's German. And it's very good.

    Unit 105

    1 1 a small white car 2 an attractive old building 3 an expensive wooden garden seat 4 a famous Italian opera singer 2

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7

    a lovely old glass vase an attractive wall mirror a modern office desk red metal kitchen chairs a splendid old model boat valuable Australian postage stamps a small wooden coffee table

    3 1 This is a powerful Japanese business computer. 2 This is an excellent small electric fire. 3 This is a big new chocolate bar. 4 This is a terrific American television comedy. 5 These are stylish aluminium garage doors. 6 These are wonderful modern sports shoes. 7 This is a very good German mobile phone.

    55 Order of Adjectives
    Put the adjectives in brackets in the correct order in these jokes: 1 (dead, blue, big) Waiter, there's a fly in this meat soup. > That's the meat, sir! 2 (intelligent, young, nice) Do you think you could spend your life with a man like me? > Sure - as long as he wasn't too much like you! 3 (thick, library, English) I borrowed a book called "How to Hug" yesterday. > Are you enjoying it? No. It was disappointing. I took it back to the library this morning. > What was wrong with it? The book was volume 7 of the Encyclopedia Britannica! Can you think of things you can describe using three adjectives? For example: chilled Italian white wine, pure Scotch malt whisky, fresh wild Scottish salmon, smelly old football boots. KEY

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