When you use more than one adjective, you have to put them in the right order – order of adjectives.
Order of Adjectives | English Rules
In general, the adjective order in English is:
1. Determiner:
The determiner: to inform it the adjectives is singular or plural, definite or indefinite, next or far.
Examples:
a car, an apple, the book, the flowers, this man, that woman, these computers, those teachers
2. Opinion:
An opinion adjective explains what you think about something (other people may not agree with you).
Examples:
good, bad, great, terrible, pretty, lovely, silly, beautiful, horrible, difficult, comfortable/uncomfortable, ugly, awful, strange, delicious, disgusting, tasty, nasty, important, excellent, wonderful, brilliant, funny, interesting, boring
3. Size:
A size adjective, of course, tells you how big or small something is.
Examples:
huge, big, large, tiny, enormous, little, tall, long, gigantic, small, short, minuscule.
4. Age:
An age adjective tells you how young or old something or someone is.
Examples:
ancient, new, young, old
5. Shape:
A shape adjective describes the shape of something.
Examples:
triangular, square, round, flat, rectangular
6. Color:
A color adjective, of course, describes the color of something.
Examples:
black, yellow, blue, pink, reddish, grey
7. Origin:
An origin adjective describes where something comes from.
Examples:
British, Chinese, French, American, Greek, Italian, Japanese, German
8. Material:
A material adjective describes what something is made from.
Examples:
woollen, wooden, silk, metal, paper, gold, silver, copper, cotton, leather, polyester, nylon, stone, diamond, plastic
9. Purpose:
A purpose adjective describes what something is used for. These adjectives often end with “-ing”.
Examples:
writing (as in “writing paper”), sleeping (as in “sleeping bag”), roasting (as in “roasting tin”), running (as in “running shoes”), a flower vase, a tennis racket
10. Noun:
The noun: the figure that is receiving the adjectives.
Order of Adjectives in English | Pictures
Ana
Sunday 12th of September 2021
Is there a difference between "opinion, size, age, shape...." and "opinion, size, shape, age,...."?
Trenton
Friday 16th of October 2020
This really helped with ordering adjectives, thanks!
MD Anzarullah
Thursday 30th of May 2019
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Hamidu Mtoro
Wednesday 1st of November 2017
A very good teaching way by giving me defferent types of adjectives,examples as well.I feel as if i hadn't got a teacher before,thanks.