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Opinion vs fact adjectives

 
Opinion adjectives express what the speaker thinks of something; e.g. nice, handsome, brilliant, etc., and fact adjectives give us information about
something such as age, size, colour, material, etc.

When we use two or more adjectives together, opinion adjectives usually go before fact adjectives.

• They live in an amazing modern attic. 

• She’s a beautiful young woman. 

Order of fact adjectives

 
When we use two or more fact adjectives together, they normally go in the following order: