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Determiner

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OPINION

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4
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AGE SHAPE COLOUR ORIGIN

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MATERIAL PURPOSE

Noun

SIZE
a
a
a
a
a
a
an
an
a
a
a
a
a
a
a
an
her
our
some
a

silly

young
huge
small
small

English
round

metal
red

thin

sleeping
Canadian

new

steel

beautiful

blue
old
new

exciting
big
small
small
huge
boring
handsome
expensive

wooden
French
red

plastic
Japanese

round
wooden
old
slim
round
antique

short
big
old
delicious
smart,
energetic,
beautiful

square

carving
sailing

curly

serving
reading
sailing
physics

Canadian
blue
silver
black

sugar
English
Thai

young

In English, it is common to use more than one adjective before a noun.

man
bowl
bag
lady
knife
boat
table
band
hat
bowl
lamp
ship
teacher
sufer
bowl
mirror
hair
dog
food
woman

For instance: Hes a silly young fool.


When you use more than one adjective, you have to put them in the right order, according to type:
OPINION An opinion adjective explains what you think about something or somebody: silly, beautiful, pretty, harsh,
difficult, .
SIZE A size adjective, of course, tells you how big or small something is: large, tiny, enormous, little, small, huge,
AGE young, old, ancient, new, antique,
SHAPE square, round, flat,
COLOUR red, reddish, brown, hazel, red, yellow,
ORIGIN an origin adjective describes where somebody or something comes from: French, American, Greek, eastern,
western,
MATERIAL describes what something is made from: paper, plastic, metal, wooden, steel, iron,
PURPOSE describes what something is used for: sleeping bag, roasting tin,

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