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    The document provides an order of adjectives to describe nouns, with opinion/evaluation adjectives first, then size, age, shape, color, origin, material, and function. It lists examples of adjectives in each category to modify nouns.

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    The document provides an order of adjectives to describe nouns, with opinion/evaluation adjectives first, then size, age, shape, color, origin, material, and function. It lists examples of adjectives in each category to modify nouns.

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    The document provides an order of adjectives to describe nouns, with opinion/evaluation adjectives first, then size, age, shape, color, origin, material, and function. It lists examples of adjectives in each category to modify nouns.

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    ADJECTIVES ORDER

    PURPOSE
    OPINION SIZE AGE SHAPE COLOUR ORIGIN MATERIAL

    What do you How big or small How old or young What is the What colour is Where is it What is it made What is it used for?
    think about is it? someone or shape? it? from? of?
    something? something is?

    pretty, ugly, silly, small, tiny, large, old, young, square, red, blue, British, silver, gold, racing (car),
    smart, easy, enormous, big... adolescent, new, triangular, magenta, Chinese, copper, wood, football (field)
    fun... ancient... irregular, flat, pinkish... French, plastic, cotton... frying (pan)
    round... Brazilian,
    western,
    lunar...
    Adjectives are often placed before a noun in the following order:
    EVALUATION/ APPEARANCE/ AGE/ PERIOD COLOR/ ORIGIN/ TYPE /
    OPINION QUALITY PATTERN MATERIAL FUNCTION
    SIZE / MEASURE GEOGRAPHICAL TYPE

    beautiful big / large new-born red French

    good narrow / wide old green Mexican 1st class

    bad small / little young blue Chinese multi-purpose

    ugly low / high new light-yellow beach wireless

    interesting long / short antique striped mountain HD / 3-D

    fascinating light / heavy ancient dark blue oceanic men's

    SHAPE ORIGIN FUNCTION

    intelligent round five-year-old deep purple solar

    pretty triangular brand-new pink nuclear hunting

    unsightly square five-day-old brown molecular cooking

    CONDITION MATERIAL

    foul tarnished century-old rose plastic walking

    stupid chipped mature olive ceramic running

    silly broken middle-age aqua cotton dancing

    ridiculous rotten teenage lime paper front-loading

    easy shiny prehistoric polka-dot gold off-road

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