Word Order (die Wortstellung) English vs. German Sentence Construction. English tends to rely mostly on word order to indicate the grammatical function of a word or phrase. Note the difference between 'The village gives the dragon the virgin' and 'The village gives the virgin the dragon' (Not to mention: 'The virgin gives the dragon the village'). We also have a very simple game to practice the order of adjectives before a noun on our grammar website. If you are looking for the older version of the adjectives word order chart, you can find it here: Adjectives Word Order. Have an awesome day!
Sometimes you need to use two or more adjectives to describe something or someone. Part of becoming fluent in English is knowing which order to use these adjectives in. Choose the most natural-sounding response:1. He was wearing a shirt.dirty old flannelflannel old dirtyold dirty flannel2. Pass me the cups.plastic big bluebig blue plasticbig plastic blue3. All the girls fell in love with the teacher.handsome new AmericanAmerican new handsomenew handsome American4. I used to drive car.a blue old Germanan old German bluean old blue German5.
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He recently married a woman.young beautiful Greekbeautiful young Greekbeautiful Greek young6. This is a movie.new Italian wonderfulwonderful Italian newwonderful new Italian7. She is a supermodel.beautiful slim BrazilianBrazilian beautiful slimslim Brazilian beautiful8.
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It's in the container.large blue metalblue large metalblue metal large9. He sat behind a desk.big wooden brownbig brown woodenwooden big brown10.
She gave him a vase.small Egyptian blackblack Egyptian smallsmall black Egyptian(Your answers will be displayed in a new window).