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Practice: Order of Adjectives - answers

(ferocious, big, black, angry)

1. The bear threatened our hiking party.

__The ferocious big black bear______________________________________________

(quiet, peaceful, Canadian)

2. Seamus came from a town.

___a peaceful Canadian town._____________________________________________

(tall, honest, skinny)

3. My father was a Norwegian.

___a tall honest Norwegian.________________________________________________

(running, ugly, ancient)

4. Geoff arrived in a pair of shoes.

_____a pair of ugly, ancient running shoes.___________________________________

(chubby, new-born, pink)

5. Renata was holding a baby.

___a chubby pink new-born baby. _________________________________________

(glass, enormous, soulless)

6. Steve hated the buildings in the city.

____the enormous glass soulless buildings___________________________________

(lovely, woolen, warm)

7. Vincent loves his gloves.

___his lovely warm woolen gloves._________________________________________

(linoleum, clean, beautiful)

8. The custodian was proud of his floor.

____his beautiful clean linoleum floor.  ________________________________________

(ugly, tiny, quick-footed)

9. Bartholomew was surprised by a mouse.

____an ugly tiny quick-footed mouse. _______________________________________

(polyester, orange, tight)

10.We laughed when Lou arrived wearing pants.

_____wearing tight orange  polyester pants. ___________________________________

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