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Adjective Order
Adjective Order
Adjectives cannot be written in any order. There are rules, so you should use the following
order:
1.Determiner or article
Determiners e.g. this, that, these, those, my, mine, your, yours, him, his, her, hers,
they, their, Sam's ; or
Articles - a, an, the
2.Opinion adjective
e.g. polite, fun, cute, difficult, hard-working
4.Shape
e.g. circular, oval, triangular, square, 5-sided, hexagonal, irregular
5.Age
e.g. new, young, adolescent, teenage, middle-aged, old, ancient
6.Colour
e.g. red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, white, grey, black, black and white, light
blue, dark red, pale blue, reddish brown, off-white, bright green, warm yellow
7.Nationality
e.g. Hong Kong, Chinese, English, American, Canadian, Japanese
8.Religion
e.g. Buddhist, Taoist, Christian, Moslem, pagan, atheist
9.Material
e.g. wood, plastic, metal, ceramic, paper, silk