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Free Year 7 Order of Adjectives and When to Use Commas Between Them Worksheet

Students discover the order that English speakers use when stacking adjectives (opinion, size, age, shape, shade, origin, material, purpose) and put jumbled adjectives in order. They learn the test for coordinate adjectives, which take a comma between them, and cumulative adjectives, which do not, and finish by trimming over-stacked descriptions so that every adjective earns its place.

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Year
Year 7
Subject
English
Topic
Adjectives & Adverbs
Difficulty
Level 2 · Standard
Estimated time
25 minutes
Curriculum
Australian Curriculum
Questions
22
Answers
Included, with working
Format
PDF (A4), print or complete online

Students will practise

  • ordering several adjectives before a noun
  • identifying coordinate and cumulative adjectives
  • using commas between coordinate adjectives
  • choosing a small number of precise adjectives instead of stacking many

Curriculum: Australian Curriculum. We show specific outcome codes only where they have been verified against the official curriculum document.

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Completed: Order of Adjectives and When to Use Commas Between Them

  1. 1Punctuation Review
  2. 2Commas, Dashes and Parentheses for Extra Information
  3. 3Question Marks, Exclamation Marks and Indirect Questions

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  1. Print the PDF or complete it on screen. Write the student's name and date at the top.
  2. Read the instructions for each part together before starting. Encourage working to be shown.
  3. Mark with the answer sheet. Use the model answers and success criteria as a guide rather than a single right answer.
  4. Record the score, celebrate what went well, then follow the "What's next" suggestion.

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Who is this worksheet for?

Year 7 students (typically ages 12–13) working on adjectives & adverbs. It is pitched at level 2 · standard.

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Success TutoringWorksheetsYear 7 · English · Adjectives & Adverbs

Order of Adjectives and When to Use Commas Between Them

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Choose adjectives carefully, put them in the natural order, and use a comma only when they could swap places.

Part A: Does it sound right?

English speakers usually put adjectives in this order: opinion, size, age, shape, shade (red, blue, green and so on), origin, material, purpose, then the noun. Most people follow it without knowing the rule. Circle the version that sounds natural.

1.Which sounds natural?
  1. Aa red big balloon
  2. Ba big red balloon
2.Which sounds natural?
  1. Aan old wooden chair
  2. Ba wooden old chair
3.Which sounds natural?
  1. Aa lovely little cottage
  2. Ba little lovely cottage
4.Which sounds natural?
  1. Aa leather black jacket
  2. Ba black leather jacket
5.Which sounds natural?
  1. Aa round small table
  2. Ba small round table
6.Which sounds natural?
  1. Aa Japanese new car
  2. Ba new Japanese car

Part B: Put them in order

Write the adjectives in the natural order.

7.(cotton, white, soft) a (answer space) shirt
8.(silver, tiny, ancient) a (answer space) coin
9.(running, new, blue) a pair of (answer space) shoes
10.(Italian, delicious, homemade) a (answer space) pasta sauce
11.(square, large, glass) a (answer space) window
12.(sleeping, green, old) an (answer space) bag
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