2017-08-23 Grammar: order of adjectives

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Adverbs, adverbial phrases, and adverb clauses all give more information about verbs.
Adjectives, modifying phrases, and adjective clauses give more information about nouns.
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Remember:
phrase = a group of words that functions together
clause = a group of words with a subject and verb
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Handout p. 148 - Look at the order of words in a noun phrase.
noun modifiers tell us about the purpose or material of a noun
olive oil = oil made from olives (corn oil, mineral oil, canola oil)
baby oil = oil for babies (motor oil)
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p. 149 exercise 1 - With your partner, write 5 sentences about different noun phrases you can make with the words in the box. (Each noun phrase should include a determiner, an intensifier, an adjective or participle, and a noun modifier before the noun.)
1 I have some very cute pocket animals. (?)
2 I had a quite famous English teacher.
3 Can you see those quite cute circus animals?
4 We have a really famous university professor. / Our really famous university professor is actually pretty boring.
5 This extremely good university professor is not famous.
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a pocket-sized animal is an animal the size of your pocket
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Order of Adjectives:
cute little pocket animals - opinion before size
little green animal - size before color
an old green bottle - age before color
p. 152 exercise 3 - Complete the paragraphs with the adjectives in the correct order.
2 really useful
3 bright purple flannel
4 pretty new French
5 original plastic
6 useless and incredibly ugly antique
  incredibly ugly and useless antique (it is incredibly ugly and incredibly useless)
7 plenty of expensive brand-new brightly colored European
8 (over-crowded) little dark (over-crowded) bedroom
9 nice handmade Italian
10 nice new
11 poor old
12 terrible, frightening
   frightening, terrible (or with “and”)