An adjective is a word that gives more information about a noun. It comes right before the noun.
- For example:
- Beautiful lady
- Black cat
- Red shirt
But, sometimes, we have to put several adjectives before a noun to describe it completely. A person or a thing (i. e.Noun) may have various qualities. Like-
A chair may be wooden
may be beautiful
black in color
old or new
round or square at some time.
If we want to put all these adjectives before the main, chair’ in a sentence we have to follow a more or less fixed order. The order is:
| Determiner | Quantity | Quality | size | age | shape | color | origin | material | noun |
| a | three | beautiful | big | old | round | black | Italian | wooden | chair |
| the | two | wonderful | little | new | square | white | Chinese | wooden | vase |
More examples:
- A fat old woman bought a handbag
- Not- A old fat women
- The thief stabled her with a long sharp knife
- Not- a sharp long knife
- The man wore a white American woolen sweater
- Not- an American white woolen sweater