This document discusses the order and placement of adjectives in sentences. It explains that adjectives describe nouns by providing information about size, shape, age, color, etc. There is a specific order that multiple adjectives should follow in a sentence, beginning with determiners and including opinion, size, shape, age, color, origin, and material. Adjectives are usually placed directly before the noun they modify or after linking verbs like "be", "seem", and "feel". The document provides examples to illustrate the proper use and order of adjectives.

1. The Order of Adjectives
Adjective are words that describe or clarify
nouns. Adjectives describe nouns by giving
some information about an object’s size, shape,
age, color, origin, material, purpose, etc..

2. Let us look at some of those
uses:
• It’s a big table. (size)
• It’s a round table. (shape)
• It’s an old table. (age)
• It’s a brown table. (color)
• It’s an English table. (origin)
• It’s a wooden table. (material)
• It’s a lovely table. (opinion)
• It’s a broken table. (observation)
• It’s a coffee table. (purpose)

3. Identifying adjectives by
means of their form:
Many English adjectives end with these
suffixes:
•-able/-ible – lovable, visible, irresponsible,
comfortable
•-al – perenial, factual, legal, nocturnal, viral
•-an – Angolan, Peruvian, urban
•-ar – stellar, popular, spectacular, vulgar
•-ent – intelligent, silent, violent
•-ful – beautiful, grateful, tasteful, thoughtful

4. Identifying adjectives by
means of their form:
And also:
•--ic/-ical – athletic, energetic, magical, scientific
•-ine – bovine, canine, feminine, masculine
•-ile – agile, docile, fertile, virile
•-ive – informative, native, talkative
•-less – careless, endless, homeless, timeless
•-ous – cautious, dangerous, malodorous
•-some – awesome, handsome, lonesome,
wholesome)

5. Where do you place
adjectives in a sentence?
Adjectives are usually placed in two positions,
before the noun an adjective modifies after linking
verbs. Place adjectives directly before the noun it
modifies:
•Harry spoke to the thin man.
•We visited a well-preserved old town.
•Sarah lives in a small brick country cottage.

6. Where do you place
adjectives in a sentence?
Place adjectives after using a linking verb. Linking
verbs are often used in simple sentences with the
adjective describing the subject of the sentence.
•That ice cream looks really delicious!
•His forehead felt very hot.

7. Where do you place
adjectives in a sentence?
Linking verbs include:
be, seem, appear, look, taste, feel
•The night is warm.
•They seem very calm and collected.
•The men looked exhausted.
•The chocolate tasted bitter.
•I feel tired.

8. Order of Adjectives
Sometimes we use more than one adjective in
front of a noun:
•She is a nice intelligent young woman.
•He had a big square brown wooden box.

9. What’s the specific order for
multiple adjectives?
When you list several adjectives in a row, there’s a
specific order they need to be written or spoken. It
can go like this:
•Determiner –an article (a, an, the), a number or amount, a possessive
adjective (my, his, her, its, your, our, their), or a demonstrative (this, that, these,
those).
•Observation/Opinion – Beautiful, expensive, gorgeous, broken, delicious, ugly
•Size – Huge, tiny, 4-foot-tall
•Shape – Square, circular, oblong
•Age – 10-year-old, new, antique
•Color – Black, red, blue-green
•Origin – Roman, English, Angolan
•Material – Silk, silver, plastic, wooden, golden
•Qualifier – A noun or verb acting as adjective

10. What’s the specific order for
multiple adjectives?
This is the correct order for adjectives that come
directly before a noun, and they are separated by
commas.
My beautiful, big, square, antique, light brown,
French, wooden coffee table was broken in the
move.

11. What’s the specific order for
multiple adjectives?
Or…
I have a beautiful, big, square, antique, light
brown, French, wooden coffee table.

12. Opinion adjectives:
Some adjectives give a general opinion. We can
use these adjectives to describe almost any noun:
good bad lovely strange
beautiful nice brilliant excellent
awful important wonderful nasty

13. Opinion adjectives:
Some adjectives give a specific opinion. We only
use these adjectives to describe particular kinds of
noun:
•Food: tasty; delicious
•Furniture, buildings: comfortable; uncomfortable
•People, animals: clever; intelligent; friendly

14. Opinion adjectives:
We usually put a general opinion in front of a
specific opinion:
•Nice tasty soup.
•A nasty uncomfortable armchair.
•A lovely intelligent animal.

15. Opinion adjectives:
Usually we put an adjective that gives an opinion in
front of an adjective that is descriptive:
•a nice red dress;
•a silly old man;
•those horrible yellow curtains

16. Opinion adjectives:
We often have two adjectives in front of a noun:
•a handsome young man;
•a big black car;
•that horrible big dog.

17. Opinion adjectives:
Sometimes we have three adjectives, but this
is unusual:
•a nice handsome young man;
•a big black American car;
•that horrible big fierce dog

18. Opinion adjectives:
We use some adjectives only after a link verb:
•Our teacher was ill.
•She didn’t look very well.
afraid alive alone asleep
content glad ill ready
sorry sure unable well

19. Opinion adjectives:
Some of the commonest -ed adjectives are normally
used only after a link verb:
•annoyed; finished; bored; pleased; thrilled.
– Our teacher was pleased.
– My uncle was very thrilled when he heard the news.
– The policeman seemed to be very annoyed.

20. Opinion adjectives:
A few adjectives are used only in front of a noun:
•He lives in the eastern district.
•There were countless problems with the new
machinery.
north
south
east
west
northern
southern
eastern
western
countless
occasional
lone
eventful
indoor
outdoor
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