Do you know you just need two minutes to understand the order of adjectives? I’m sure you do.
We use adjectives to describe nouns. But, sometimes we use two or more adjectives together to modify one noun. In this case, we have to know which adjective comes first and which one comes later.
To understand the rules about the order of adjectives, you just need to do these two steps:
- Don lives in a nice new house.
- There were four beautiful small square wooden chair in the living room.
- It’s a nice sunny day.
- This is the delicious hot food I am looking for.
- Jane is such an intelligent young Colombian girl.
Step One: Understand the Difference between Opinion And Fact Adjectives | Order of Adjectives
| Opinion Adjectives | Fact Adjectives | Noun | |
|---|---|---|---|
| a a an a |
nice delicious intelligent beautiful |
sunny hot young large square wooden |
day chili sauce man chair |
Step Two: Understand the Order of Fact Adjectives | Order of Adjectives
| Size | Age | Color | Origin | Material | Noun | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a
a |
tall big small large |
young
old |
brown bluewhite |
Norwegian | plastic woodencotton |
man eyes bag table song shirt |
Remember: Fact adjectives always go after opinion adjectives.
Adjectives of Size, Length, Shape, and Width
- a large round table
- a short, fat girl
- a long winding road
- a small new house
Order of Adjective Exercises
Put the adjectives in the bracket into the correct position. Example : a beautiful chair (wooden round)
You write : a beautiful round wooden chair
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a good-looking man ( young ) ………
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a sunny day ( lovely ) ………
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a beautiful ring ( gold ) ………
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an old man ( ugly ) …….
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a modern house ( expensive ) ……
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a red car ( old/little ) …..
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long hair ( dark/beautiful )….
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a metal box ( red / big ) …..
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an English film ( old ) …….
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a beautiful wife ( young/Russian ) …..
Answer
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a good-looking man ( young ) 👉 a good-looking young man
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a sunny day ( lovely ) ……… 👉 a lovely sunny day
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a beautiful ring ( gold ) ……… 👉 a beautiful gold ring
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an old man ( ugly ) ……. 👉 an ugly old man
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a modern house ( expensive ) …… 👉 an expensive modern house
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a red car ( old/little ) ….. 👉 a little old red car
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long hair ( dark/beautiful )…. 👉 beautiful long dark hair
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a metal box ( red / big ) ….. 👉 a big red metal box
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an English film ( old ) ……. 👉 an old English film
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a beautiful wife ( young/Russian ) ….. 👉 a beautiful young Russian wife
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