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Hi everybody, today we're going to talk about adjectives. First of all let's see what an

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adjective is. Adjectives are the words that are used to describe nouns, that is

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to say people, places and things. These descriptive words, adjectives, can give

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information about size, shape, opinion, age, color, etc etc. The order of

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adjectives. When we have two or more adjectives in a sentence,

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we have to remember that we cannot place them randomly. We have to

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follow a specific order inside the sentence. You can remember the

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order by this acronym, N-O-S-A-S-C-O-M-P, or as a word, NOSASCOMP. Let's see what each of these

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letters stand for. N for number, O opinion, S size, A age, the second S shape, C color,

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The second O, origin, M for material and P for purpose. Now we are going to look at

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each of them separately, okay? So number describes, you see, the number of nouns

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that we are talking about, 1, 2, 10, 20. Example, three kids. Opinion, describes

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what is thought about the noun, the opinion of the person that is talking.

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Examples of opinion adjectives are good, bad, great, beautiful, ugly, delicious,

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excellent, boring, interesting. An example in a sentence will be it's an interesting

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project. What about size? The size adjective is used to describe how big or

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small the noun is. Big, huge, short, small, tiny, little, large. These are examples

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of size adjectives and in a sentence we will have for example a tiny house. What

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about age? Okay the age adjective will describe how old or young the described

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noun is and we have young, old, ancient, teenage, antique, mature, etc. I found an

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antique lamp. Shape. Well, as the name says, describes the shape of the noun.

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Square, circular, rectangular, curved, flat, and so on. I decided to buy the round

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table. Color. Well, easy, describes the color of the noun. Black, grey, blue, orange,

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green and so on. Mars is known as the red planet. Origin. Well, it describes where

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the noun is from. Divine, volcanic, Spanish, foreign, remote, European. In a

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sentence it will be, for example, I love Italian food. Material. It describes what

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the noun is made of. Gold, cotton, wool, silk, wooden, plastic. This is a silver, a

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silver ring. Purpose. Well, here we describe the use of the noun for running,

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for sleeping, for frying, for playing tennis. Example, don't forget your

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sleeping bag. Okay, now we are going to see some examples to practice. Okay, so

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order the following adjectives to describe the dresses. New black two night

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silk. Okay so you will form a sentence with the noun dresses and these five

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adjectives. Okay I give you just five seconds to think about it and let's go

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and see the answer that hopefully you are correct. Two new black silk night

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dresses okay another one order the following adjectives to describe the

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cookies and the adjectives that you have are a huge round delicious okay so you

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have to put those three adjectives and the word cookies and the noun cookies so

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let's see how it turns out. There are delicious huge round cookies. Yes? And

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finally, okay, we are going to say a little bit more about adjectives. So the

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first thing that we should know is that usually we don't have more than three

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adjectives in a sentence, okay? In the first example we gave there were

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lots of adjectives but that is not the common thing in

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sentences, no? So we usually we are not going to have more than three

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adjectives in a sentence. The second thing that you have to know is that

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sometimes adjectives can be found out of place when the writer wants to emphasize

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something we are not going to do it okay we are just going to use the the normal

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the normal way of putting adjectives in a sentence and finally you have to put a

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comma after every adjective except after the last one okay now you have some

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exercises if you want to practice