29291 order of adjectives

WORD ORDER OF ADJECTIVES
Adjectives like new/large/round/wooden are FACT adjectives.
(They give us factual information about age, size, colour, etc.)
Adjectives like nice/beautiful/ugly are OPINION adjectives.
(They tell us what somebody thinks of something or somebody.)
OPINION adjectives usually go before FACT adjectives:
a nice long summer holiday,
a delicious hot vegetable soup,

an interesting young man,
a beautiful large round wooden table

Sometimes we use two or more FACT adjectives. We put FACT adjectives in this order:

a

1
How big?

2
How old?

What colour?

4
Where from?

large

brand-new

blue

Italian

a
a

COLOUR
red
brown

3

ORIGIN
Spanish
German
Venetian

MATERIAL
leather
glass

5

NOUN

What is it made of?

woollen
PURPOSE

riding
beer
flower

jumper

NOUN
boots
mug
vase

QUALITY

SIZE/AGE/SHAPE

COLOUR

ORIGIN

PAST PARTICIPLE

beautiful

old

brown

French

handmade

Numbers usually go before adjectives: six large eggs

NOUN
cupboard

the second big shock

FIRST, NEXT and LAST most often go before one, two, three, etc.
the first three days
my last two jobs

young
grey
round
old

woollen
spotty
walking

noun

сложное, составноеCompound

материалMaterial

French

huge

dirty

происхождениеOrigin

рисунок, узорPattern

цветColour

формаShape

nice

возрастAge

мнениеOpinion

two
a
his
Pete’s

состояниеразмер/ConditionSize/

Определяющее
Determiner
слово

It is unnatural to use more than two or three adjectives together in one phrase.

men

jumper
face
shoes

Task: Put the adjectives in brackets in the correct position.
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
9)

a table (wooden/round/beautiful) _______________________________________________________
a ring (gold/unusual) _________________________________________________________________
a pullover (woolen/pink/nice/new) ______________________________________________________
a house (old/ugly/Turkish) ____________________________________________________________
gloves (black/comfortable/leather) ______________________________________________________
a film (interesting/American/old) _______________________________________________________
a face (long/thin/good-looking) ________________________________________________________
clouds (frightening/big/black) _________________________________________________________
a day (lovely/sunny/happy) ___________________________________________________________


10) an avenue (long/wide/noisy) __________________________________________________________
11) a painting (French/interesting/old) _____________________________________________________
12) an umbrella (yellow/enormous/red/expensive/Japanese) ____________________________________