adjective position; adjective order; -ing/-ed adjectives; nouns as adjectives
Context listening
Look at the things in the pictures. Which of the adjectives in the box can you use to describe them? You can use some more than once.
beautiful | long | short | black | grey | white | cotton | leather | silk | wool
You are going to hear a conversation between Callum and Emily.
What are they doing? Which of the things above do they talk about?
GRAMMAR
Adjective position
Adjectives usually go before nouns:
I bought a white T-shirt
NOT a T-shirt white
Adjectives don’t change
Some white T-shirts
NOT some whites-T-shirts
Adjectives go after some verbs e.g. be, get, become, look, seem, appear, sound, taste, smell, feel:
They’re comfortable and they’ll look good with the skirt.
The material felt really soft.
A few adjectives (e.g. afraid, alone, asleep, awake) cannot go before a noun:
Adjective order
When there are two or more adjectives, they go in this order:
We put and ...
between two colour adjectives:
a black and white belt
between two adjectives after a verb:
Clothes shops are always boring and crowded.
NOT my favourite and long and black boots
Adjectives ending in -ing and -ed
-ED adjectives
-ed adjectives are used to describe how a person or an animal feels.
Nouns in these sentences are things that are alive.
I am bored because I have nothing to do.
Susanne is excited because she is going on holiday.
My cat is frightened because of the storm.
-ING adjectives
-ing adjectives are used to show the cause of a feeling.
The noun in the sentence causes this feeling.
This game is exciting.
That song is annoying.
The trip was tiring.
Nouns used as adjectives
When we put two nouns together, the first one works like an adjective, e.g. a birthday party:
birthday tells us what kind of party it is.
a birthday party
a clothes shop
a computer game
a language school
a student card
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