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What is the correct order of adjectives?
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What Are Adjectives? Examples of Adjectives and Types of Adjectives
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@ Thank you for your question, Notsebenzo Mtengwana.
As usual, I will try to explain the difference using simple language and plenty of examples.
1. What are adjectives?
2. Order of adjectives – two adjectives
3. Order of adjectives: three or more adjectives
Order of adjectives
Order of Adjectives
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What are adjectives?
Adjectives are part of speech which describe nouns or pronouns in a sentence.
It is possible to use two or more adjectives to describe one noun and when that happens there are specific rules as to in which order the adjectives are used.
Order of adjectives – two adjectives
a nice young woman
a friendly big black dog
a lovely old buildinga wonderful sunny day
When we have two or more adjectives, the adjectives expressing opinion come before adjectives describing any physical qualities of the noun, so in the examples below we first say “nice” which expresses our subjective opinion of a “woman”. “Young” describes physical or “objective” quality of the woman.
The order of adjectives generally follows this pattern. If you have two adjectives describing opinion, the general opinion comes before the specific opinion.
Adjectives which give a general opinion, include the ones below. They can be used to describe any noun (person or thing).
good
bad
lovely
strangegreatnice
beautiful
brilliant
excellentamazingawful
important
wonderful
nastyhorribledreadful
For example:
- We have many good / lovely / awful teachers in our school.
- It was a nice / lovely / horrible meal.
Food: tasty, delicious, nutritiousBuildings, furniture: comfortable, uncomfortablePeople, animals: friendly, intelligent
- a comfortable blue suit.
- a horrible old witch.
- the wonderful Italian pizza
Order of adjectives – three or more adjectives
It is very unusual to have more than three adjectives.
- General opinion
- Specific opinion
- Size
- Shape
- Age
- Colour
- Nationality
- Material
General opinion (nice, amazing, wonderful, horrible, bad)
Quality or specific opinion (tasty, friendly, comfortable)
Size (big, small, huge, tiny)
Shape (round, triangular, square)
Age (old, young, ancient, modern)
Colour (black, yellow, multicoloured)
Nationality, place of origin (British, South American, Western)
Material (leather, wooden, metal)
- A comfortable new velvet dress.
- A lovely old ceramic coffee mug.
- A delicious home-made Italian pizza.
- A pair of amazing black Italian leather boots.
- A horrible old discoloured wall.
- A beautiful red Japanese silk blouse.
- A disgusting old wooden kitchen table.
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