Grammar Exercise Adjectives
Please rearrange the order of adjectives and nouns in the following sentences.
1. Desk/ Office/ Big/ Ugly/ An/ Wooden/ Brown
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2. Hair/ Long/ Black/ My sister's/ Straight
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3. Photograph/ Black/ White/ And/ Oval/ A/ Family/ Historic
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4. Vase/ Jade/ Ming/ Beautiful/ A/ Antique/ Little/ Green
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5. Computer/ Laptop/ High-tech/ Brand-new/ Deep/ University's/ Blue/ My
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Please use the given adjectives and nouns to make sentences using the adjective patterns that you
have learnt in class
Adjective
Noun/ Pronoun
Verb (inf.)
Silly
Linda
Do
Kind
Stella
Eat
Generous
Miss Kwan
Get
Clever
You
Go
Foolish
Sue
Have
Wonderful
Linda
Drink
Happy
Mabel
Attract
Clever
Mr. Wong
Buy
Impossible
Cinderella
Sleep
Happy
Leon
Identify
Careless
Wilson
Study
Stupid
Kitty
Take
Thoughtful
Mathew
Play
Great
Jason
Argue
Interesting
Daniel
Finish
Necessary
Kenny
Remember
Clear
Clement
Believe
Important
Elaine
Think
Crazy
Una
Create
Good
Peter
Help
Pattern 1: It is + adjective + to-infinitive
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Pattern 2: It is + adjective + for + to-infinitive
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Pattern 3: Subject + be + adjective + to-infinitive
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Pattern 4: Subject + be + adjective + enough + to-infinitive
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Pattern 5: Subject + be + too + adjective + to-infinitive
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Pattern 6: It is + adjective + of + noun/pronoun + to-infinitive
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Pattern 7: It is + adjective + that
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Exercise Ans Key Adjectives
1. An ugly big brown wooden office desk
1. determiner or article - An
2. opinion - ugly
3. size - big
4. colour - brown
5. material - wooden
6. noun used as an adjective office
7. main noun desk
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2. My sister's long straight black hair.
1. Determiner or article - My sister's
2. size long
3. shape straight
4. colour black
5. the main noun hair.
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3. A historic oval black and white family photograph.
1. Determiner or article - A
2. opinion - historic
3. shape - oval
4. age - (not historic, as historic means about a famous event.)
5. colour - black and white
6. noun used as an adjective - family
7. the main noun photograph
4. A beautiful little antique green jade Ming vase. (Antique means over one hundred years old,
and therefore valuable.)
1. Determiner or article - A
2. opinion - beautiful
3. size - little
4. age - antique
5. colour - green
6. material - jade
7. noun used as an adjective - Ming
8. the main noun vase
5. My university's high-tech brand-new deep blue laptop computer.
1. Determiner or article - My university's
2. opinion - high-tech
3. age - brand-new
4. colour - deep blue
5. noun used as an adjective - laptop
6. the main noun computer
