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Adjectives: their position or word order

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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