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Adjective: Order

  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...