Adjectives order

Sometimes we use two or more adjectives together :

- My parents live in a nice new house

- A dirty old black cat is wandering the streets

A / 'OPINION' ADJECTIVES  

    Adjectives like nice and dirty are opinion adjectives.They tell

us what you think about somebody or something.

    Opinion adjectives usually go before fact adjectives

B /   'FACT' ADJECTIVES

      Adjectives like new, old, black are fact adjectives. They give

us factual information about, age and colour.

      Sometimes we use two or more fact adjectives. Very

often, we put fact adjectives in this order :

1  /   SIZE  :       How big ?         Large, small, tiny, enormous

2 /     AGE   :      How old ?           New, young, old, ancient

3 /    SHAPE :    What shape ?     Square, round, rectangular,

flat

4 / COLOUR :    What colour ?      Blue, pink, yellow, crimson

5 /  ORIGIN :    Where from ?      English, American,

Chinese,French

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6 / MATERIAL: What it is made of ?    Plastic, cardboard, glass,
wooden

7 / PURPOSE : What it  is used for ?    Racing car, frying pan,
rocking chair 

Examples: 

-  An interesting (opinion ) old (2)  book

-  An ugly (opinion) pink (4 ) plastic (6) ornament 

-  A nice (opinion) small (1) African (5) drum

-  A delicious (opinion) round (3) chocolate (6) cake

-  A pair of smart( opinion) brown  (4) leather (6) boots

- 
A beautiful (opinion) small (1) white (4) Chinese (5 ) computer

-  A
nice (opinion) big (1) old (2) square (3) white (4) French (5) c
hina (6) plate *

 *   This last example comes from the BBC site, but we do

not usually put more than three adjectives together !

  When there are two colour adjectives, we use and :

-  A big green and yellow hat

1. a new black car
2. an interesting old book
3. delicious French food
4. a silly old cat

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5. a big red American truck
6. beautiful red shoes
7. a tall Japanese girl
8. a delicious round chocolate cake
9. some great big oranges
10. a new electronic guitar

 At home there is a wooden beautiful square   beautiful

square wooden table in the dining room.

2. I was offered a gold  unusual   an unusual gold ring by my

husband.

3. My grandmother has knitted a nice new woollen   pullover

for me.

4. I saw An American old interesting   an interesting old

American movie with friends at home.

5. It may rain ! There are big black   clouds floating in the air.

6. It was such a sunny lovely   a lovely sunny day that we

decided to go out for a walk.

7. My daughter has long beautiful black   beautiful long

black hair.

8. Last week, I visited an old lovely little   a lovely little

old village in a remote place.

9. The gallery exhibited mainly French old strange   strange old

French paintings.

10. John was given a little black adorable   an adorable little

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black kitten by his sister.

11. It started to rain so I opened a red and yellow enormous   

an enormous red and yellowumbrella.

12. I came into a picturesque old   house built in 1860.

13. A   shiny Italian new sports car   shiny new Italian sports
car was parked opposite my house.