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Rules for ordering of adjectives in English


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Nilupuli Ranasinghe


RULES FOR ORDERING OF ADJECTIVES IN ENGLISH

What are adjectives? 

     Adjectives are words that describe nouns. specially adjectives describe the action, state, or quality that nouns refer to. Adjectives are one of the four major word classes, along with nouns, verbs, and adverbs
     There are 7 types of adjectives in English
1. Descriptive
Beautiful, tall, annoying, silly, loud

2. Quantitative
Much, many, half, a lot

3. Demonstrative
This, that, these, those

4. Possessive
My, his, her, their

5. Interrogative
What, which, whose

6. Distributive
Each, every, either, any

7. Articles
A, an, the
(Although articles are their own part of speech they are technically also adjectives)

Generally the adjective order in English is

1. Quantity or number
2. Quality or opinion
3. Size
4. Age
5. Shape
6. Colour
7. Proper adjective (often nationality, other place of origin, or material)
8. Purpose or qualifier

Examples: 

I love that really old big green antique car that always parked at the end of the street. [quality – age – size – colour – proper adjective]

2. My sister has a big, beautiful, tan and white , bulldog. [size – quality – colour – colour]

3. A wonderful old Italian clock. [opinion – age – origin]

4. A big square blue box. [dimension – shape – colour]

5. A disgusting pink plastic ornament. 


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