Adjectives: Word order Exercises

UNIT 91 Adjectives: Word order Exercises

91.1   Put the adjectives in parentheses ( . . . ) in the correct position.

Example: a beautiful table (wooden round) A beautiful round wooden table

1.   an unusual ring (gold)_______________________________

2.   an old lady (nice)_____________________________________

3.   a good-looking man (young)________________________________________

4.   a modern house (attractive)____________________________________________

5.   black gloves (leather)__________________________________________________

6.   an American movie (old)_____________________________________________

7.   a large nose (red)___________________________________________________

8.   a sunny day (lovely)______________________________________________

9.   a hot bath (nice)___________________________________________________

10.   an ugly dress (orange)____________________________________________

11.   a red car (old/little)___________________________________________________

12.   a metal box (black/small)__________________________________________

13.   a long face (thin)_________________________________________________

14.   a wide avenue (long)___________________________________________

15.   a big cat (fat/black)____________________________________________

16.   a little village (old/lovely)_______________________________________

17.   long hair (blonde/beautiful)___________________________________________

18.   an old painting (interesting/French)__________________________________________
                       
91.2   Complete each sentence with a verb and an adjective from the box.

feel   look    seemed   awful     fine     interesting    smell  upset  sounded tastes wet nice

1.   Ann seemed upset this morning. Do you know what was wrong?

2.   I can't eat this. I've just tried it and it________________________________

3.   Jim told me about his new job last night. It_____________________very___________________________, much better than his old job

4.   I wasn't very well yesterday, but I _________________________today

5.   What beautiful flowers! They__________________________too

6.   You__________________________________. Have you been out in the rain

91.3   Choose the right word: adjective or adverb

Examples: The dinner smells good/well
Drive careful/carefully!

1.   Please shut the door quiet/quietly.

2.   Can you be quiet/quietly, please?

3.   This soup tastes nice/nicely.

4.   Tom cooks very good/well

5.   Don't go up that ladder. It doesn't look safe/safely.

6.   We were relieved that he arrived safe/safely after his long trip.

7.   Do you feel nervous/nervously before exams?
 
8.   Hurry up! You re always so slow/slowly.

9.   She looked at me angry/angrily when I interrupted her.