Order of Adjectives - English Grammar Exercise

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What is the correct order of adjectives in English? Practice your grammar with this free English grammar exericise. Sort the adjectives which represent opinion, size, age, shape, material, origin. and color.

Question 1:

Can you tell me where you bought that _______ vase?

A) lovely small red china

B) small lovely china red

C) small lovely red china

D) red lovely small china

1 b

Question 2:

After the exam, I finally got rid of the _______ textbooks.

A) English old horrible thick

B) old horrible thick English

C) horrible thick old English

D) old English horrible thick

1 b

Question 3:

What a _______ puppy. I wish I weren't allergic to dogs.

A) cute white tiny young

B) young cute tiny white

C) tiny cute white young

D) cute tiny young white

1 b

Question 4:

The thief drove away in a/an _______ car. I don't remember the license plate, but it surely was a Volkswagen.

A) big old black German

B) German big old black

C) old big black German

D) big black German old

1 b

Question 5:

For lunch, we had a ______ soup. It was really great, I even asked the cook for the recipe.

A) tasty Thai hot orange

B) hot orange tasty Thai

C) Thai hot orange tasty

D) tasty hot orange Thai

1 b

Question 6:

Do you still remember the _______ song our mother used to sing to us when we were young?

A) lovely old French

B) French old lovely

C) French lovely old

D) lovely French old

1 b

Question 7:

I lent her my _______ jacket, but she never returned it back.

A) comfortable white big leather

B) comfortable big white leather

C) leather big white comfortable

D) big comfortable leather white

1 b

Question 8:

My first job was in a/an _______ building without air conditioning. I'm glad I left the place and now I work in a modern one.

A) terrible-looking huge blue old

B) terrible-looking huge old blue

C) huge terrible-looking blue old

D) old terrible-looking huge blue

1 b

Question 9:

For the first day at school, she decided to wear a _______ dress. In my opinion, she was a bit overdressed.

A) red new good-looking

B) good-looking red new

C) new good-looking red

D) good-looking new red

1 b

Question 10:

Someone's stolen a/an _______ script from the museum. It is all over the news.

A) ancient priceless Egyptian

B) Egyptian ancient priceless

C) priceless ancient Egyptian

D) ancient Egyptian priceless

1 b