Adjective Order

Exercise 1 - Put the following adjectives into the correct column in the table below: tall ancient fat leather young Spanish modern Italian thin square blond long scruffy broad gold cashmere suede filthy nylon fair pointed huge dark steel pale tiny short smart muscular Opinion Size Age Shape Colour Origin Material lovely big old round grey English cotton ugly

Exercise 2 Complete the following story with the adjectives from above. You can use each one more than once. The woman was able to give the police a detailed description of her attackers. One of the men was tall and _____________ with short hair, _____________ skin, and pale _____________ eyes. He was wearing a ____________ grey suit with a ____________ blue __________ jumper underneath, and he had an expensivelooking ___________ ring on his left hand. In contrast, the other man was much shorter, with ____________ shoulders and a very _____________ build. He had short __________ hair and a ____________ chin. His clothes were filthy and _____________. He wore blue jeans, an old black ____________ jacket, and a pair of ____________ red trainers.