Adjective order

Adjective order

We often use more than one adjective before the noun:

I like big black dogs.
He's a handsome young man.
She was wearing a beautiful long red dress.

WHAT'S THE CORRECT ORDER FOR TWO OR MORE

ADJECTIVES?
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We often use more than one adjective before the noun:

I like big black dogs.
He's a handsome young man.
She was wearing a beautiful long red dress.

WHAT'S THE CORRECT ORDER FOR TWO OR MORE

ADJECTIVES?

The general order is:

OPINION AND THEN FACT
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"Opinion" is what you think about something.

"Fact" is what's definitely true about something.

EX:
1. A lovely new dress.
2. A boring French film.
Adjective order

"Opinion" is what you think about something.

"Fact" is what's definitely true about something.

EX:
1. A lovely new dress.
2. A boring French film.

Sometimes we have more than 3 adjectives in one sentence, but

it's very unusual.
In that case, we use the following order:
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1) OPINION 2) SIZE 3) CONDITION 4) AGE 5) COLOR

amazing small clean young black
interesting huge thin old white
ugly mass sharp new pink

6) ORIGIN 7) MATERIAL 8) ORIGIN 9) PURPOSE

chinese plastic chinese cooking
italian gold italian studying
spanish silk spanish ballet
Adjective order

1) OPINION 2) SIZE 3) CONDITION 4) AGE 5) COLOR

amazing small clean young black
interesting huge thin old white
ugly mass sharp new pink

6) ORIGIN 7) MATERIAL 8) ORIGIN 9) PURPOSE

chinese plastic chinese cooking
italian gold italian studying
spanish silk spanish ballet

This is the "normal" order but remember that having so many

adjectives in one sentence doesn't happen in everyday conversations
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EXAMPLE:
A lovely long Turkish gold necklace
lovely --> opinion
long --> size
Turkish --> origin
gold --> material
Adjective order

EXAMPLE:
A lovely long Turkish gold necklace
lovely --> opinion
long --> size
Turkish --> origin
gold --> material

Before all of those adjectives we use determiners, e.g. an, some,

a few, my, this, etc.
This delicious red apple
Your dirty old brown boots