The underlined words are adjectives. They describe Usha. We may use more than
one adjective to describe a person, place or thing or an object. They may give us information about things like quality, colour, age, make, shape etc., of a person, place, thing or an object.
Quality : a pleasant day Size : a small room
Age : a young man Temperature : a hot day
Shape : a square table Colour : a black cat
Order of adjectives
When we use two or more adjectives to describe a noun, we have to take care of
their order. The position of the adjectives depends on how closely they are related to the noun. Though hard and fast rules cannot be given, the following guidelines will be of some help.
Example: It is Rani’s beautiful old brown Indian handmade wooden table.
I. Rewrite the following sentences with the correct order of adjectives:
1. Usha was born at farm mother’s old her house.
2. Usha is dark little a shy girl.
3. There are flowers some beautiful rose white in our garden.
4. It is new my textbook English.
5. Sunitha was dressed in saree kancheepurm expensive an silk.
II. Look at the following sentences paying special attention to the underlined
phrases:
1. Usha joined the Sports Division at Cannanore to improve her sport talent.
2. Nambiar introduced the sand training in her programme to enhance her perfor
