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:
| Opinion Adjectives | Fact Adjectives | Noun | |
|---|---|---|---|
| a a an a | nice delicious intelligent beautiful | sunny hot young large square wooden | day chili sauce man chair |
| 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.
Put the adjectives in the bracket into the correct position. Example : a beautiful chair (wooden round)
You write : a beautiful round wooden chair
a good-looking man ( young ) ………
a sunny day ( lovely ) ………
a beautiful ring ( gold ) ………
an old man ( ugly ) …….
a modern house ( expensive ) ……
a red car ( old/little ) …..
long hair ( dark/beautiful )….
a metal box ( red / big ) …..
an English film ( old ) …….
a beautiful wife ( young/Russian ) …..
a good-looking man ( young ) 👉 a good-looking young man
a sunny day ( lovely ) ……… 👉 a lovely sunny day
a beautiful ring ( gold ) ……… 👉 a beautiful gold ring
an old man ( ugly ) ……. 👉 an ugly old man
a modern house ( expensive ) …… 👉 an expensive modern house
a red car ( old/little ) ….. 👉 a little old red car
long hair ( dark/beautiful )…. 👉 beautiful long dark hair
a metal box ( red / big ) ….. 👉 a big red metal box
an English film ( old ) ……. 👉 an old English film
a beautiful wife ( young/Russian ) ….. 👉 a beautiful young Russian wife
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