Word Ordering is a subcategory of Language in Context in which respondents rearrange given sentence parts to make a grammatically correct sentence or phrase within a text.
ACTIVITIES:
1. Add the modifiers in the correct order to the following passages. The first one has been done for you as an example.
My friend Wolfgang is a shopaholic. Whenever he goes out of the house, he
returns with some (1) strange new (new, strange) "bargain." He rarely buys any (2) (useful, really)
items. Once he came home with (3) (bright, flannel, purple) blankets. "They match my (4) (pretty,
French, new) curtains, " he said. But those curtains were still in their (5) (plastic, original)
wrappings. He was so busy shopping that he hadn't had time to hang them up.
Fortunately, Wolfgang refuses to buy anything secondhand. I can imagine all the
(6) (useless, incredibly ugly, antique) "art objects" he would bring home. He already has
(7) (brand-new, European, expensive, plenty of, bright-colored) shirts and sweaters. But that
doesn't stop him from buying more. He just piles them into his (8) (little, dark, bedroom,
overcrowded) closet. He has some (9) (Italian, nice, handmade) shoes that I have never even seen
him wearing.
He's running out of space to put things. He has such a (10) (new, nice) apartment
with lots of storage space, but his closets look like some (11) (old, poor) shopkeeper's
(12) (frightening, terrible) nightmare!
Thewlis, S. (1993). Grammar Dimensions, Book Three.
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