Adjective Before Noun
We sometimes use more than one adjective before the
noun:
- I like big black dogs.
- She was wearing a beautiful long red
dress.
What is the correct order for two or more adjectives?
1. The general order is: opinion, fact:
- a nice French car (not a French nice
car)
("Opinion" is what you think about something.
"Fact" is what is definitely true about something.)
2. The normal order for fact adjectives is size,
age, shape, colour, material, origin:
- a big, old, square, black, wooden Chinese table
3. Determiners usually come first, even though
they are fact adjectives:
- articles (a, the)
- possessives (my, your...)
- demonstratives (this, that...)
- quantifiers (some, any, few, many...)
- numbers (one, two, three)
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