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In English, it is common to use more than one adjective before a noun — for example, “He's a silly young fool,” or “She's a smart, energetic woman.” When you use more than oneadjective, you have to put them in the right order, according to type. This page will explain the different types of adjectives and the correct order for them.
STRUCTURE
OPINION | SIZE | AGE | SHAPE |COLOR | ORIGIN | MATERIAL |
Beautiful | Tall | Old | Square | Blue | Italian | Woolen |
Interesting | Short | New | Oval | Yellow | Mexican | Wooden |
Boring | Big | Young | Round | Red |American | Plastic |
Ugly | Small | Ancient | Triangular | White | British | Glass |
Plain | thin | Antique | Circular | Black | Spanish | Leather |
Nice | Slim | Modern | Hexagonal | Pink | Chinese |Paper |
Gorgeous | High | Teenager | Curved | Green | Japanese | Silk |
Wonderful | Low | Middle-aged | Narrow | Gray | Indian | Cloth |
Disgusting | Wide | Old-fashioned | Wide | Orange |Dutch | Concrete |
Good | Narrow | mature | Spherical | Purple | Colombian | Metal |
Bad | Long | | cylindrical | Transparent | Brazilian | Ceramic |
Easy | Huge | | | Silver | South African |Cotton |
Difficult / hard | Fat | | | Brown | Egyptian | steel |
Important | Large | | | dark | Canadian | |
Cheap | Tiny | | | | Australian | |
Expensive | enormous | | | | French ||
Useful | | | | | German | |
Awful | | | | | Greek | |
fantastic | | | | | Russian | |
elegant | | | | | Ukrainian | |
delicious | | | | | Portuguese | |perfect | | | | | | |
Examples:
1. A beautiful tall young Mexican girl.
2. An interesting small old Korean man.
3. A boring long British film.
4. An important long Turkish river.
5. A pair ofelegant new brown Peruvian leather boots.
6. An expensive small new oval European mirror.
7. A huge round metal bowl.
EXERCISE:
Word Order for Adjectives Exercise at Auto-English
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