.

The "normal" order for fact

adjectives 
Size, shape, age, colour / origin /
material / purpose
 a small 18th-century French coffee table
 a rectangular black wooden box

3. Determiners usually come first, even though some

grammarians regard them as fact adjectives:
 articles (a, the)
 possessives (my, your...)
 demonstratives (this, that...)
 quantifiers (some, any, few, many...)
 numbers (one, two, three)

Note that when we want to use two colour adjectives, we

join them with "and":

 Many newspapers are black and white.

 She was wearing a long, blue and yellow dress.

Here are some examples of adjective order:

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   adjectives head
nou
n

determin opinion fact adjectives

er adjective
s

other size, origin materi purpose

shape, al *
age,
colour

two ugly   black     guard dogs

a   well-   Chines     artist

know e
n

a     small, French   coffee table

18th-
centur
y

your fabulous   new     sports car

a lovely   pink Thai silk   dress

and
green

some     black Spanis leather riding boots

h

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   adjectives head
nou
n

determin opinion fact adjectives

er adjective
s

other size, origin materi purpose

shape, al *
age,
colour

a     big       dog
black
and
white

this   cheap     plastic rain coat

an     old   wooden fishing boat

my     new     tennis racke

t

a wonderf   15th- Arabic     poem

ul centur
y

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