Adjective order in English

Barnaul, 2014

Some rules to remember:

Fact adjectives come after opinion ones

examples: a nice blue dress

nice - opinionblue - factan unusual gold ring

gold - factunusual - opinion

1. Opinion adjectives express quality: character: price:

good, new, delicious, ugly, beautiful, nice, dirty and etc.polite, honest, cheeky, cocky, cynical, flighty and etc.

cheap, expensive, 10$, precious and etc.

2. Fact adjectives have the following order: Size: Age: Shape: Colour: Material: Origin:

big, little, tall, high, low and etc.old, young, elderly, new-born and etc.

square, round, cone-shaped, star-shaped and etc.red, black, yellow, purple, green, white, blue and etc.

steel, rubber, cotton, plastic, metal, silver and etc.Italian, Russian, china-made, Scottish and etc.

Example: a nice long oval dark wooden tablenice – opinion, long – size, oval – shape, dark – colour, wooden - material

Purpose adjectives come just before nouns

Purpose means “for what” (для чего)

a new steel carving knife – новый стальной разделочный нож

a big green sleeping bag – большой зелёный спальный мешок

Examples:

Superlatives come before other adjectives

Examples:

the first two yearsthe biggest well-known star

Sum it up!

Fact adjectives come after opinion ones

Purpose adjectives come just before nouns

Superlatives come before other adjectives

Example:The first comfortable Russian passenger train – первый российский

комфортный пассажирский поезд

the first - superlativecomfortable - opinion

Russian - fact passenger - purpose

Good luck!