ADJECTIVES GENERAL ORDER value size ageheat shape colour

ADJECTIVES GENERAL ORDER value size age(heat) shape colour origin material beautiful enormous cold dirty light hot famous heavy new round important light old tall little original Short small antique circular black domestic cotton dark blue İstanbul iron green London metal square white French plastic triangular yellow urban wooden l-shaped rectangular Prepared by M Demirekin red village wool

THE ROYAL ORDER OF ADJECTIVES Deter miner Physical Description Observation Size Shape Age a beautiful old an expensive antique four gorgeous longshort our big those that Qualifier touring Noun old mirror silk roses hair Sheep dog English wooden young delicious American Thai Prepared by M Demirekin car silver black little enormou s several some Italian square dilapidated Material Color red stemmed her Origin hat boxes hunting cabin basketball players food

Order of adjectives • The order of the adjectives is usually like this: 1. opinion (= what you think about something) 2. size 3. age 4. shape 5. colour 6. origin (= where something comes from) 7. material (= what something is made of) 8. purpose (= what something is used for) Prepared by M Demirekin

SUPERIORITY ORDER the coldest the coolest the warmest the hottest extremely cold extremely cool extremely warm extremely hot very cold very cool very warm very hot too cold too cool too warm too hot colder cooler warmer hotter cold cool warm hot fairly cold fairly cool fairly warm fairly hot less cold less cool less warm less hot not cold not cool not warm not hot

DEFICIENCY ORDER too little too much lack of excess of insufficient quantity of excessive quantity of inadequate amount of excessive amount of Prepared by M Demirekin

Gradable adjectives awful bad good terrible wonderful great • The adjectives in the middle of the diagramcalled ‘gradable’ adjectives – they give a general description of something. We can use very with this type of adjective: very good, very bad • We cannot use absolutely with these adjectives: absolutely good Prepared by M Demirekin

Limit adjectives awful bad good terrible wonderful great • The adjectives at the ends of the diagram are called 'limit' adjectives – they express an extreme description of something. We can use absolutely with this type of adjective: absolutely wonderful • We cannot use very with these adjectives: very great Prepared by M Demirekin