📘 Word Order in Adjectives

When we use more than one adjective to describe a noun, we usually follow a specific order:

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🔢 Standard Order of Adjectives:

Order	Type of Adjective	Example
1	Opinion	beautiful, nice, terrible
2	Size	big, small, tiny
3	Age	old, young, new
4	Shape	round, square, thin
5	Color	red, blue, green
6	Origin (where from)	Turkish, American, Italian
7	Material	wooden, plastic, gold
8	Purpose (what it's for)	sleeping (bag), cooking (pan)
9	Noun	bag, car, dress

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🧠 Example Sentence:

a beautiful small old round white Italian wooden coffee table

➡️ Opinion + Size + Age + Shape + Color + Origin + Material + Purpose + Noun

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✅ More Examples

• a nice big blue car
• an elegant long red dress
• a small old wooden chair
• a delicious round Turkish dessert
• a modern square glass table

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⚠️ Tips

• Usually, we don’t use more than 3 adjectives in everyday speech.
  Too many adjectives can sound unnatural.

• Commas are not used between adjectives in this kind of order.

✅ Correct: She has a big old brown dog.
❌ Wrong: She has a brown old big dog.

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✍️ Quick Practice

Put the adjectives in the correct order:

1. (American / interesting / book) → an interesting American book
2. (plastic / small / red / toy) → a small red plastic toy
3. (round / wooden / old / table) → an old round wooden table