NB: The order of adjectives is often: opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, purpose + NOUN
Opinion | Size | Age | Shape | Color | Origin | Material | Purpose |
Famous | Huge | Old | Broad | Yellow | Morocan | Plastic | Carving |
Innocent | Colossal | Young | Round | Grey | American | Leather | Reading |
Poor | Tiny | 1 year | Curved | Indigo | French | Wooden | Playing |
Stupid | Average | Ancient | Square | White | Italian | Metal | writing |
Rewrite the following sentences in the correct order.
1. We have a green / beautiful / playing / pitch.
2. My sister bought a leather / big / Moroccan / black / purse
4. They spent the night in a small / cheap /Chinese / square hotel room.
5. My aunt has a 3 month / cute / baby.
6. My teacher is a, / hard working / smart / lady.
7. Have you met that tall / / Portuguese / young / professor?
8. The couscous we had for lunch was / salty / rather.
9. Casablanca is a big, crowded / Moroccan / modern city.
10. Throw away this cooking / rusty / old / pan.
Put the adjectives between parentheses in their right place.
1. I ate a delicious bar of chocolate. (rectangular)
2. Khadija was wearing a fashionable long silken Kaftan. (Moroccan)
3. Roukia bought a chick square woolen scarf. (striped)
4. We'll sell that small ancient French car. (uncomfortable)
5. What a lovely day! (new)
6. I don't like those expensive German cars. (big)
7. My daughter has a cute Siamese cat. (hairy)
8. I'll give away my long baggy jeans. (ugly)
9. What a boring thick book! (French)
10. This beautiful small Berber cape was given to me as a present. (yellow)
Fill in the blanks with adjectives from the list: funny, famous, helpful, overweight, athletic, sad, smart, responsible, smart, dangerous, kind, jealous, boastful, mean, expensive, ugly, careful, interested, angry, and successful.
1. Aisha is fairly __________. She helps her mother in the kitchen
2. My parents are __________ and give me 100 DH a week for my allowance.
3. My brother is very __________. He plays soccer, handball, and does jogging.
4. Bouchra always gets good grades. She is __________.
5. Hamid regularly visits his grandparents. He is very __________.
6. Samuel Eto'o is a very __________ soccer player. Everyone knows him.
7. I like Mr Bean's shows. He is such a __________ actor.
8. Amal is __________ because her cat was run over by a car.
9. My mom is slim, whereas my dad is a bit __________.
10. Hotel rooms in Casablanca are much more __________ than in Khémisset.
11. Most teenagers in Morocco are __________ in soccer.
12. Who's __________ for messing up my room?
13. Climbing up Mount Toubkal can be __________. It's very rugged and steep.
14. Hamlet was __________ with his mother because she remarried so quickly.
15. Most students are __________ of Yassine because he is smart and gets good grades.
16. Behind every __________ man there stands a woman.
17. Amal’ mom is too __________ to buy her a movie ticket.
18. When I was little, my mother often told me to be __________ and look both ways when I cross the road.
19. Quasimodo is not attractive. He is a very __________ character in Notre Dame de Paris.
20. Beth is __________. She likes talking about her kids achievements at school.
NB: “ed” adjectives describe how people feel while ‘ing’ adjectives describe things and situations which cause the feeling or emotion.
1. My sister is very annoyed / annoying. She takes my CDs, my skirts, and my crayons.
2. Our Arabic teacher was so bored / boring yesterday that everyone was yawning all
through the lecture.
3. Malika wanted to go to Italy but did not get a visa. She feels so disappointed / disappointing.
4. I did not understand this morning's math lesson. It was all very confused / confusing.
5. My little brother felt so frightened / frightening by firework noise.
6. I find English classes very interested / interesting. Our teacher varies his lessons.
7. I'm sure I'll be thoroughly exhausted / exhausting after the baccalaureate examination.
8. My sister is going to college next year. She is quite excited / exciting about it.
9. We watched an amused / amusing show by Mr Bean last night.
10. The Twin Towers attack was shocked / shocking to all of us.
11. The actress felt embarrassed / embarrassing when they took a photo of her picking her nose.
12. Mohammed was delighted / delighting because he got a 20/20 on his math test.
13. Stop clipping your nails in public. This is disgusted / disgusting.
14. Rime's parakeet died of cold last week. It was so depressed / depressing for her.
15. If I am late, my mother will get worried / worrying.
16. Have you heard the surprised / surprising news about Sarah's divorce?
17. I like Moroccan wedding ceremonies. They are so fascinated / fascinating.
18. Everybody was thrilled / thrilling when the Moroccan Soccer Team made it to the finals in 2004.
19. My roommate at the boarding school was so irritated / irritating. I couldn’t stand his non-stop prattle.
20. The teacher liked my paper because I gave good reasons and my arguments were convinced / convincing.
More Exercises at:http://a4esl.org/q/h/9801/dg-eding.html
Adjectives or Adverbs? Choose the right one.
1. More and more people are getting serious / seriously overweight in America.
2. My grandmother does not speak good / well Arabic. She speaks Berber.
3. The president public / publicly apologized for torturing the opposition leaders.
4. The fans of IZK will not feel happy / happily if the team loses the match next
Sunday.
5. Teachers often display a polite / politely and patient manner with children.
6. I used to careful / carefully drive on the icy roads of Cleveland when I was in the
USA.
7. Rachid is busy / busily preparing for next week’s test.
8. I wish I could speak English fluent / fluently like you.
9. My bother arrived late / lately to school last Monday.
10. My sister writes careless / carelessly and makes stupid mistakes.
As the snow flies
On a cold and gray Chicago morning
A poor little baby child is born
In the ghetto
And his mama cries
'cause if there's one thing that she don't need
it's another hungry mouth to feed
In the ghetto
People, don't you understand
the child needs a helping hand
or he'll grow to be an angry young man some day
Take a look at you and me,
are we too blind to see,
do we simply turn our heads
and look the other way
Well the world turns
and a hungry little boy with a runny nose
plays in the street as the cold wind blows
In the ghetto
And his hunger burns
so he starts to roam the streets at night
and he learns how to steal
and he learns how to fight
In the ghetto
Then one night in desperation
a young man breaks away
He buys a gun, steals a car,
tries to run, but he don't get far
And his mama cries
As a crowd gathers 'round an angry young man
face down on the street with a gun in his hand
In the ghetto
As her young man dies,
on a cold and gray Chicago morning,
another little baby child is born
In the ghetto
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