BASIC-GRAMMAR-U-18.3

	18.3.	*Order of adjectives*

PRESENTATION

Adjectives usually go in this order before a noun:

*opinion*	*size*	*shape*	*age*	*colour*	*origin*	*material*	*noun*
	small		old		English	oil	paintings
		round				wooden	dining table
elegant				black	Tuscan		lamp

TIP

In conversation, you rarely use more than two adjectives before a noun.

With long lists of adjectives, you often write commas between adjectives: It’s an elegant, black, Tuscan lamp.
Numbers go before adjectives: two small oil paintings.

Key vocabulary

Furniture: armchair, chair, cooker, curtains, desk, lamp, table, vase

Adjectives: ancient, beautiful, black, blue, brown, comfortable, cool, cotton, nineteenth-century, elegant, fast, French, green, huge

, Italian, Japanese, Korean, large, long, lovely, new, old, metal, modern, plastic, practical, red, round, Russian, square, stylish, tall, white, wooden, yellow

EXERCISES⇒

BASIC-GRAMMAR-U-18.3

18.3.

Order of adjectives