Order of adjectives By: Linna Jalin Petaya Video Learning: When more than one adjective comes before a noun, the adjectives are normally in a particular order. Adjectives which describe opinions or attitudes (e.g. amazing ) usually come first, before more neutral, factual ones (e.g. red ): She was wearing an amazing red coat. Not: … red amazing coat If we don’t want to emphasise any one of the adjectives, the most usual sequence of adjectives is: order relating to examples 1 opinion unusual, lovely, beautiful 2 size big, small, tall 3 physical quality thin, rough, untidy 4 shape round, square, rectangular 5 age young, old, youthful 6 colour blue, red, pink 7 origin Dutch, Japanese, Turkish 8 material metal, wood, plastic 9 type general-purpose, four-sided, U-shaped 10 purpose cleaning, hammering, cooking It was made of a 1 strange , 6 green , 8 metallic material. It’s a 2 long , 4 narrow , 8 plastic bru...
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