Positions of Adjectives/Adverbials
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Adjective Order (click here)
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Order of Adverbials (click here)
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Adverbials: “BBC Learning English”
Online Exercises
1. Rebuild the sentences “Drag and Drop” (Hot Potatoes Format)
2. Rebuild the sentences “Position of Adverbs” (New English File 4)
3. Rebuild the sentences “Adjective Order” (Headway Advanced)
4. Multiple Choice “Order of Adverbials”
5. Space Invaders Game “Adjective Order” (New English File 4)
Pen-and-Paper Game
Write one stage at a time, then fold your piece of paper over. Pass your piece of paper to your neighbour. On the piece of paper you get from your neighbour, write the next stage, and so on.
1. the indefinite article and an adjective of personality
2. a singular noun
3. a single-word adverb of manner
4. a transitive verb in past simple
5. a cardinal number >= 2
6. an adjective of size/shape
7. adjective(s) of colour
8. adjective of material
9. a plural noun
A gifted nurse hopefully took 99 small white soft-silk watches.
A clever tiger slowly phoned twelve enormous grass-green diamond computers.
A witty pig hopelessly bought two good-shaped electric-blue wooden cars.
An insecure baker dreamily cooked 33 billion enormous white gold umbrellas.
An astute giraffe slyly hunted five hundred triangular golden cotton people
A witty spider seriously bought ten octagonal plastic policemen
A broad-minded grandma roughly wrote 1,000,000 tiny silver leather jumpers.
An extravagant cowboy anxiously gave away six enormous pink gold cars.
A generous rooster stressfully ate six triangular light-blue glass women.
A selfish nurse sadly played two huge silver leather rockets.
A generous teacher atrociously bought seven tiny dark black wooden ears.
An impatient elephant slowly ate five thousand huge sky-blue wooden aeroplanes.