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    The document discusses the order of adjectives when used together in phrases. It explains that there are opinion adjectives like "nice" and "dirty" that provide a subjective view, and fact adjectives like "new" and "old" that provide objective information about size, age, shape, color, origin, and material. Fact adjectives are generally ordered by size, age, shape, color, origin, and material. Examples are provided to illustrate the typical ordering of multiple adjectives.

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    The document discusses the order of adjectives when used together in phrases. It explains that there are opinion adjectives like "nice" and "dirty" that provide a subjective view, and fact adjectives like "new" and "old" that provide objective information about size, age, shape, color, origin, and material. Fact adjectives are generally ordered by size, age, shape, color, origin, and material. Examples are provided to illustrate the typical ordering of multiple adjectives.

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    The document discusses the order of adjectives when used together in phrases. It explains that there are opinion adjectives like "nice" and "dirty" that provide a subjective view, and fact adjectives like "new" and "old" that provide objective information about size, age, shape, color, origin, and material. Fact adjectives are generally ordered by size, age, shape, color, origin, and material. Examples are provided to illustrate the typical ordering of multiple adjectives.

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    Adjectives order

    Sometimes we use two or more adjectives together :

    - My parents live in a nice new house

    - A dirty old black cat is wandering the streets

    A / 'OPINION' ADJECTIVES  

        Adjectives like nice and dirty are opinion adjectives.They tell


    us what you think about somebody or something.

        Opinion adjectives usually go before fact adjectives

    B /   'FACT' ADJECTIVES

          Adjectives like new, old, black are fact adjectives. They give


    us factual information about, age and colour.

          Sometimes we use two or more fact adjectives. Very


    often, we put fact adjectives in this order :

    1  /   SIZE  :       How big ?         Large, small, tiny, enormous

    2 /     AGE   :      How old ?           New, young, old, ancient

    3 /    SHAPE :    What shape ?     Square, round, rectangular,


    flat

    4 / COLOUR :    What colour ?      Blue, pink, yellow, crimson

    5 /  ORIGIN :    Where from ?      English, American,


    Chinese,French

    1
    6 / MATERIAL: What it is made of ?    Plastic, cardboard, glass,
    wooden

    7 / PURPOSE : What it  is used for ?    Racing car, frying pan,
    rocking chair 

    Examples: 

    -  An interesting (opinion ) old (2)  book

    -  An ugly (opinion) pink (4 ) plastic (6) ornament 

    -  A nice (opinion) small (1) African (5) drum

    -  A delicious (opinion) round (3) chocolate (6) cake

    -  A pair of smart( opinion) brown  (4) leather (6) boots

    - 
    A beautiful (opinion) small (1) white (4) Chinese (5 ) computer

    -  A
    nice (opinion) big (1) old (2) square (3) white (4) French (5) c
    hina (6) plate *

     *   This last example comes from the BBC site, but we do


    not usually put more than three adjectives together !

      When there are two colour adjectives, we use and :

    -  A big green and yellow hat

    1. a new black car
    2. an interesting old book
    3. delicious French food
    4. a silly old cat

    2
    5. a big red American truck
    6. beautiful red shoes
    7. a tall Japanese girl
    8. a delicious round chocolate cake
    9. some great big oranges
    10. a new electronic guitar

     At home there is a wooden beautiful square   beautiful


    square wooden table in the dining room.

    2. I was offered a gold  unusual   an unusual gold ring by my


    husband.

    3. My grandmother has knitted a nice new woollen   pullover


    for me.

    4. I saw An American old interesting   an interesting old


    American movie with friends at home.

    5. It may rain ! There are big black   clouds floating in the air.

    6. It was such a sunny lovely   a lovely sunny day that we


    decided to go out for a walk.

    7. My daughter has long beautiful black   beautiful long


    black hair.

    8. Last week, I visited an old lovely little   a lovely little


    old village in a remote place.

    9. The gallery exhibited mainly French old strange   strange old


    French paintings.

    10. John was given a little black adorable   an adorable little

    3
    black kitten by his sister.

    11. It started to rain so I opened a red and yellow enormous   


    an enormous red and yellowumbrella.

    12. I came into a picturesque old   house built in 1860.

    13. A   shiny Italian new sports car   shiny new Italian sports
    car was parked opposite my house.

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