Mind Your Adjective: A Learning Strategy

An adjective is a word that tells us more about a noun or a pronoun.

Examples:

The big book is quite heavy.

Mother cooks a delicious dinner.

If you put more than one adjective in your sentences, you have to follow the order of adjective types.

Here is the order:

1. Opinion
2. Size/shape
3. Age
4. Temperature
5. Colour
6. Origin
7. Material
8. Purpose

Too hard to remember? Let me give you an easy step to remember the order.

1. Oliver
2. Smith
3. Ate
4. Two
5. Chocolate
6. Oreos
7. Mom
8. Packed

What I've done here is just putting the order into a mnemonic so that it makes more sense to you as well as easy to remember because it is put into one meaningful sentence. But be careful, don't get mixed up with the two 'O's!

Now let us try the strategy. Give several adjectives based on this picture.

This is a sleek, big, purple, leather handbag.

(O) (S) (C) (P)

In this sentence, we have followed the order of adjective. We start with opinion, size, colour and lastly purpose.

I hope this strategy could help you in your learning!