In the Right Order: Grammar Worksheet on “Order of Adjectives” for Grade 4

This Grade 4 grammar worksheet helps learners understand the correct order in which adjectives should appear before a noun — for example, a beautiful long red dress instead of a red beautiful long dress. With structured exercises and fun examples, children learn to arrange descriptive words naturally and fluently in English.

Why Learning Order of Adjectives Matters in Grammar?  

1. It teaches how to organize descriptive words clearly before nouns.  
2. It improves writing fluency and sentence correctness.  
3. It helps learners describe things more vividly and naturally.  
4. It strengthens understanding of adjective categories — opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, and purpose.  

What’s Inside This Worksheet?  

🧠 Exercise 1 – Multiple Choice Questions  
Students choose the sentence where adjectives appear in the correct order, e.g., She wore a beautiful long red dress.  

✏️ Exercise 2 – Fill in the Blanks  
Learners select the right order of adjectives for each blank from pairs like (yellow long / long yellow) and (brown cute / cute brown).  

📋 Exercise 3 – Match the Following  
Students match each sentence with its correct adjective phrase, such as big red balloon, old wooden chair, long silk scarf, etc.  

📝 Exercise 4 – Underline and Circle Practice  
Students underline correct adjective orders and circle the incorrect ones in sentences such as I saw a red big balloon (incorrect) and She wore a long blue silk dress (correct).  

📖 Exercise 5 – Paragraph Writing  
A creative paragraph where students fill in blanks using pairs of adjectives in proper order to describe objects and artwork at a school exhibition.   

✅ Answer Key (For Parents & Educators)

Exercise 1 –  
1. a) beautiful long red 2. b) shiny big black 3. b) black little cute 4. a) old wooden square 5. b) small round Chinese 6. c) red leather new 7. b) naughty little black 8. a) small white plastic 9. a) big round chocolate 10. a) beautiful large colourful  

Exercise 2 –  
1. long yellow 2. cute brown 3. big red 4. black woollen 5. German new 6. tall pink 7. metal square 8. small round 9. gold old 10. small blue  

Exercise 3 –  
1. big red 2. beautiful 3. old wooden 4. cute little 5. round metal 6. shiny silver 7. long silk 8. new English 9. interesting 10. tall Indian  

Exercise 4 –  
Correct: long blue silk, small cute kittens, woollen black sweater, beautiful picture.  
Incorrect: red big balloon (should be big red balloon).  

Exercise 5 – Sample Paragraph Answers:  
beautiful framed, bright colourful, small wooden, elegant glass, creative clay, shiny silver, attractive painted, informative green, colourful paper, tall brick.  

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