Here are some questions that students might wonder about:
- Does the adjective get positioned before or after the noun?
- What about a verb? Can adjectives go after a verb?
- What if there is more than one adjective? For example, what if a hat is brown and also ugly? What is the word order for placing these adjectives?
The following resources have been curated for you to respond to these questions:
Website | Page Name | Comments |
BBC - Learning English | Adjectives: position | This article explains the difference between an adjective placed before the noun and after the noun. |
English Club | Adjective Before Noun | This article explains how and when to use adjectives before nouns. |
English Club | Adjective After Verb | This article explains how and when to use adjectives after verbs. |
University College, London | Attributive and Predicative Adjectives | Advanced. This website offers a great deal of detail about adjectives. Notice the that there are seven (7) pages on adjectives. You can select these pages by using the page selector in the upper right-hand corner of the webpage. |
Ginger | Order of adjectives: How to order adjectives in English | Other than the advertisements on the page, this is a very nice, clean page that explains the concept well. |
Woodward English | Adjectives - Word Order | I left this recommendation toward the bottom of the list because the page is a bit disorganized. The actual information on the page, however, is good. |
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