The document summarizes the general rules for adjective order in English sentences. It lists 8 categories that adjectives usually follow in order: opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, and purpose. Examples are provided to demonstrate the typical order of multiple adjectives in sentences. The summary emphasizes that this is a general guideline and adjectives may appear in a different order depending on the specific context.
The document summarizes the general rules for adjective order in English sentences. It lists 8 categories that adjectives usually follow in order: opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, and purpose. Examples are provided to demonstrate the typical order of multiple adjectives in sentences. The summary emphasizes that this is a general guideline and adjectives may appear in a different order depending on the specific context.
The document summarizes the general rules for adjective order in English sentences. It lists 8 categories that adjectives usually follow in order: opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, and purpose. Examples are provided to demonstrate the typical order of multiple adjectives in sentences. The summary emphasizes that this is a general guideline and adjectives may appear in a different order depending on the specific context.
The document summarizes the general rules for adjective order in English sentences. It lists 8 categories that adjectives usually follow in order: opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, and purpose. Examples are provided to demonstrate the typical order of multiple adjectives in sentences. The summary emphasizes that this is a general guideline and adjectives may appear in a different order depending on the specific context.
Adjectives in English must appear in a sentence in a
certain order. This order is (usually): 1. Opinion (nice, interesting, good, ugly, boring, etc.) 2. Size (short, big, small, fat, tall, etc.) 3. Age (25 year-old, young, old-fashioned, new, etc.) 4. Shape (soft, round, flat, triangular) 5. Color (dark, light, yellow, green, etc.) 6. Origin (Guatemalan, American, pre-historic, etc.) 7. Material (steel, cotton, wooden, electronic) 8. Purpose (visiting, ironing, washing)
You can remember adjective order with this “word”
OpSAShCOMP Of course, people don’t usually use six adjectives to describe one thing! But the order applies, regardless of how many adjectives are used. Study these examples: We watched a boring modern American movie. It was a large new rubber ball. I finally bought a small new imported computer. The kitten was silly, tiny, and young. He bought a large, old, wooden ironing board. You can use a comma [ , ] between adjectives if there are more than three of them, and if you could use an “and” between them. This isn’t necessary, but helps if the sentence might otherwise be confusing:
She lived in a large, orange-colored house.
but He bought an old French textbook. Adjective Order
Opinion Size Age Shape Color Origin Purpose
Material dark horrible gigantic new lumpy blue solar steel coloring mid- middle dumb sized aged uneven black factory aluminum driving square green junior round natural American cotton cooking stupid small old square reddish southern wooden traveling shallow lovely average 1940's oval orange Russian plastic cleaning beautiful tiny ancient carved greenish Guatemalan jade religious
Practice:
He invited that ______________________ lady to dinner.
beautiful young young beautiful
I wore my grandmother’s ___________________ gown to the party.
dancing satin turn of the century turn-of-the-century satin dancing
They need ______________________ balls for that game.
red plastic plastic red
My mother bought a _________________________ umbrella stand.
beautiful porcelain Chinese beautiful Chinese porcelain
My sister wants to meet that __________________________ gentleman.
Spanish old handsome handsome old Spanish
My favorite cleaning tool is a _______________________________ rag.
cleaning old cotton square old square cotton cleaning
