Adjectives and skills

When several adjectives come before a noun they follow a typical order: opinion – size – age – shape – colour – origin – material – purpose + noun: a lovely small old round brown wooden table. In practice we usually use two or three adjectives. -ed adjectives describe feelings and -ing adjectives describe the cause: I am bored because the lesson is boring. Comparison: short adjectives take -er / -est (faster, the fastest), long ones take more / the most (more creative, the most creative); irregular: good – better – the best, bad – worse – the worst. Skills are of two kinds: personal (patient, adaptable, creative) and professional (computer skills, teaching, accounting). Skills improve with practice, so interest in learning is the basis of success.