Order adjectives

Key Notes :

📝Order of Adjectives

Adjectives describe nouns. Sometimes, we use more than one adjective to describe a noun. In English, adjectives usually follow a certain order.

Typical Order of Adjectives

When using multiple adjectives, we follow this order:

🎨 Opinion → 🖼️ Size → 🌈 Colour → 🧾 Material → 📌 Noun

Example:

• A beautiful (opinion) small (size) red (colour) silk (material) bag (noun) 🎒

Types of Adjectives

Type of Adjective	Example	Emoji
Opinion	lovely, beautiful, funny	😍😂
Size	big, small, tall	📏📐
Age	old, young, new	🕰️🍼
Shape	round, square, oval	⚪⬛
Colour	red, blue, green	🔴🔵🟢
Origin	Indian, American, French	🇮🇳🇺🇸🇫🇷
Material	silk, cotton, wood	🧵🪵
Purpose/Qualifier	sleeping (as in “sleeping bag”)	🛌

Tip: You cannot mix up the order!
❌ “A red beautiful small bag” (wrong)
✅ “A beautiful small red bag” (correct)

Fun Example Sentences

• I bought a cute little white puppy 🐶
• She wore a beautiful long blue dress 👗
• He has a shiny new black bicycle 🚲

Visual Trick to Remember

Think of it like building a sandwich 🥪:

• Opinion (top)
• Size (next layer)
• Colour (next)
• Material (bottom)
• Noun (the bread holding it all together)

Quick Practice

Reorder these adjectives correctly:

1. old / small / wooden / chair
2. blue / lovely / dress
3. round / big / yellow / ball

Answers:

1. a small old wooden chair 🪑
2. a lovely blue dress 👗
3. a big round yellow ball ⚽

let’s practice!