2. ORDER OF ADJECTIVES
• Before a noun
1.General opinion 5.Shape
2.Specific opinion 6.Color
3.Size 7.Origin
4.Age 8.Material
9.Type/Purpose
3. WHICH COMES FIRST...
• The most objective adjective is placed
closest to the noun
• He was wearing a new navy-blue overcoat.
• The most subjective [people might not
agree with you] adjective is placed
closest to the verb
• She has a beautiful pink face and very
gentle blue eye.
4. GENERAL VS SPECIFIC
• General opinion
• Good, bad, beautiful, wonderful, awful,
awesome, brilliant
• Specific opinion
• Food: tasty, delicious
• People: kind, friendly, generous
wonderful tasty meal, beautiful kind person
Lesson from British Council
5. PUT IT THIS WAY
opinion size age shape
good, bad, New, Round,
Big, small,
horrible, ancient, square,
petite,
difficult three-year- rectangular,
enormous
delicious old flat
color origin material type/purpose
Thai, Italian, Gardening
Reddish, Cotton, silk,
Canadian, [gloves],
white, bright, brick, gold,
eastern, sleeping
dark wooden
Greek [bag]
6. EXAMPLE
Opini Materi
Size Age Shape Color Origin Type Noun
on al
Beauti Life- Ancie Off- Marbl Decor
Round Italian Statue
ful sized nt white e ative
Elegan Garga Moder
- Brown French Brick - House
t ntuan n
7. PRACTICALLY SPEAKING
• It’s rare to have more than 3 adjectives
to describe a noun
• Keep it simple: 3 adjectives would
suffice
