When we have more than one adjective before a noun, these adjectives normally go in a specific order.

 

Opinion adjectives are always put before fact adjectives, while the order of fact adjectives depends on the facts they describe.

 

The usual order of adjectives is presented below:

 

General opinion	Specific opinion	Size
Nice Funny	Intelligent Tasty	Large Small

 

Quality	Age	Shape
Clever Happy	Old Young	Round Square

 

Color	Origin	Material
Green White	African Polish	Paper Glass

 

Recently I’ve been to a small German town (size → origin).

 

Every fashion-monger should have a small black dress (size → color).

 

That’s a lovely young grey kitten (opinion → age → color).

 

I have a beautiful French wool sweater (opinion → origin → material).

 

Tom is a nice, intelligent young man (general opinion → specific opinion → age).

 

My grandmother has an old round wooden table in the country (age → shape → material).

 

Note: in English you should not put more than three adjectives in a row before a noun

 

Adjectives are words used to tell us more about people or things. They usually describe nouns and are put before the nouns without changing their own forms.

 

This is a nice house.

 

It’s a rainy day.

 

There are many ripe red apples on the tree.

 

Sometimes adjectives are put after the verbs like ‘be’, ‘become’, ‘get’:

 

The sky is blue.

 

In autumn tree leaves become yellow and red.

 

It’s getting late, we need to go.

 

Adjectives can belong to different categories, each containing a number of types.

 

Fact adjectives provide factual information about the object they describe, e.g. its color, size, material, etc.

 

I saw a big car passing by the street (size type of adjective).

 

Young boys and girls go to school (age type of adjective).

 

Mary likes to wear white dresses in summer (color type of adjective).

 

The box is square, and the ball is round (shape type of adjective).

   

Tom brought a small porcelain cup from his trip to China (material type of adjective).

 

Do you like Vietnamese food? (origin type of adjective).

 

When we need to describe our thoughts about somebody or something, we can use opinion adjectives, such as ‘nice’, ‘beautiful’, ‘friendly’, etc.

 

Some of them are used to express general opinion (general opinion adjectives):

 

I have a beautiful cat (beautiful can describe various things)

 

My lovely dog plays all day round.

 

Others may be used to express more specific opinion (specific opinion adjectives):

 

The meal is delicious (delicious is normally used to talk about food).

 

Emily is a kind person (kind is normally used to talk about people).