Grammar: B1 - ✨ Grammar Essentials: 🧩 Parts of Speech & 🏗️ Sentence Structure - Lesson 6: Order of Multiple Adjectives before a noun
Grammar: Order of Adjectives B1 Lesson 18: Describing Nouns with Multiple Adjectives What you will learn: By the end of this lesson, you will be able to arrange multiple adjectives before a noun in their natural, correct order.
The Royal Order of Adjectives When we use more than one adjective to describe a noun, we don't put them in a random order. English speakers naturally follow a specific sequence. Learning this sequence will make your language sound much more fluent and professional. You will almost never use all of these categories at once! Using two or three is very common. Adjective Order Guide Order # Category Example Words 1 Opinion beautiful, delicious, interesting, lovely 2 Size big, small, long, tall 3 Age old, ancient, new, young 4 Shape round, square, flat 5 Color red, blue, green, black 6 Origin Khmer, French, American 7 Material silk, stone, wooden, plastic 8 Purpose sleeping (bag), cooking (pot) Examples in Action She bought a beautiful old Khmer statue. (Opinion → Age → Origin → Noun) He sat …