Adjectives in a Series

1. ADJECTIVES IN A SERIES The Order of Describing Words in a Sentence

2. ORDER OF ADJECTIVES ACRONYM Purpose may also be called QUALIFIER ANOSSACOMP

3. ADJECTIVES The simplest definition of an adjective is that it is a word that describes or clarifies a noun. Adjectives describe nouns by giving some information about an object’s size, shape, age, color, origin or material. • It’s a big table. (size) • It’s a round table. (shape) • It’s an old table. (age) • It’s a brown table. (color) • It’s an English table. (origin) • It’s a wooden table. (material) • It’s a lovely table. (opinion) • It’s a broken table. (observation) • It’s a coffee table. (purpose)

4. ADJECTIVES When an item is defined by its purpose, that word is usually not an adjective, but it acts as one in that situation. • coffee table • pool hall • hunting cabin • baseball player

5. What Do Adjectives Look Like? English grammar can be tricky, there are often exceptions to the rules, so you need to be careful. You'll find that English adjectives often end with these suffixes: • -able/-ible – adorable, invisible, responsible, uncomfortable • -al – educational, gradual, illegal, nocturnal, viral • -an – American, Mexican, urban • -ar – cellular, popular, spectacular, vulgar • -ent – intelligent, potent, silent, violent • -ful – harmful, powerful, tasteful, thoughtful • -ic/-ical – athletic, energetic, magical, scientific • -ine – bovine, canine, equine, feminine, masculine • -ile – agile, docile, fertile, virile • -ive – informative, native, talkative • -less – careless, endless, homeless, timeless • -ous – cautious, dangerous, enormous, malodorous • -some – awesome, handsome, lonesome, wholesome

6. What Do Adjectives Look Like? Many adjectives also end with -y, -ary, -ate, -ed, and -ing. However, nouns and adverbs can end with -y, lots of nouns end with -ary, nouns andverbs also end with -ate, and verbs also end in -ed and -ing. Remember we said you need to be careful! To work out if a word is an adjective or not, look at it's location in the sentence.

7. EXAMPLES • My beautiful, big, circular, antique, brown, English, wooden coffee table was broken in the move. • The interesting, small, rectangular, blue car is parked in my space. • My father lives in a lovely, gigantic, ancient, brick house. • I have an annoying, small, circular, American, tin, alarm clock that wakes me up.

8. EXERCISES Write the correct order of the given adjectives: (blue old cotton) 1. Mr. Reyes is wearing his _________________ shirt. (small new plastic red) 2. Please wash the ____________________ cups. (black expensive old German) 3. I used to drive that _____________________ car. (wooden brown big) 4. Ms. Domingo sat on a ___________________ desk. (beautiful Brazilian slim) 5. Our special guest is a _____________ supermodel.

9. EXERCISES (large metal blue) 6. Arlene kept the packs of sugar in a _________________ container. (new favorite Korean) 7. Chloe and Beck are watching their___________________ TV series. (pretty new American tall) 8. They have a _____________________ classmate. (cracked nice yellow Egyptian) 9. Joy hid the ___________________ vase. (handsome Canadian young) 10. Many girls adore the _____________ singer.

10. ASSIGNMENT • Write a poem, a song or a rap about your favorite person using adjectives. Present tomorrow morning during review. This will be your performance output.