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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

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) china (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

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2. I was offered an unusual golda gold  unusualI don't know ring by my husband.

3. My grandmother has knitted a new nice woollena nice new woollena woollen new niceI don't know pullover for me.

4. I saw An American old interestingan interesting old AmericanAn old American interestingI don't know movie with friends at home.

5. It may rain ! There are big blackblack bigI don't know clouds floating in the air.

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7. My daughter has beautiful long blacklong beautiful blackblack long beautifulI don't know hair.

8. Last week, I visited an old lovely littlea little lovely olda lovely little oldI don't know village in a remote place.

9. The gallery exhibited mainly old strange FrenchFrench old strangestrange old FrenchI don't know paintings.

10. John was given an adorable little blacka little black adorablea black little adorableI don't know kitten by his sister.

11. It started to rain so I opened an enormous red yellowan enormous red and yellowa red and yellow enormousI don't know umbrella.

12. I came into a old picturesquepicturesque oldI don't know house built in 1860.

13. A   new Italian shiny sports car  shiny Italian new sports carshiny new Italian sports carI don't know was parked opposite my house.