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Position: adjectives and adverbs

I can use adjectives and adverbs in the correct position; I can use too and enough.

Position of adjectives

WANTED

We put adjectives before a noun.
She's got dark hair.
He works in a modern factory.
D
Happy people live longer.
We can put adjectives after the verb be and verbs
like become, feel, look, seem.
'
] Tall young man with I m very excited.
short blond hair. He You look tired.
sometimes wears an In questions with the verb be, we put the adjective
old brown leather after the noun.
jacket and often Is your bedroom big ?
drives a big red car.
When an adjective comes after an indefinite article
If you see this man (a/an), we use an if the adjective starts with a vowel.
call 999 immediately a car an old car a red car

When we use two or more adjectives to describe
a noun, we usually put them in the order in the
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u table below.
He's just bought a small blue car.
She was wearing an old woollen sweater.
I saw a beautiful Chinese vase in the museum.

When we use two adjectives after the verb be, we
use and between the adjectives.
His car was small and blue.

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Opinion Size Age Colour Nationality Material

beautiful big old blue Chinese cotton
horrible small new red Russian plastic

% 1 Write the sentences.

ÿ live/in/town/I/boring/a i live tu a boriw town.
1 are/my/parents/friendly/very _
2 a/you're/jacket/wearing/new -
3 a/she/got/job/good/has/? _
4 that/interesting/is/book/? _
5 ate/restaurant/in/we/Chinese/a _
6 angry/man/looks/that _
7 your/difficult/lessons/English /are/? _
8 cars/usually/drive/people/famous/expensive _

132 Position: adjectives and adverbs