Tham khảo tài liệu 'the order of adjectives in a series', tài liệu phổ thông, ôn thi đh-cđ phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | The Order of Adjectives in a Series It would take a linguistic philosopher to explain why we say little brown house and not brown little house or why we say red Italian sports car and not Italian red sports car. The order in which adjectives in a series sort themselves out is perplexing for people learning English as a second language. Most other languages dictate a similar order but not necessarily the same order. It takes a lot of practice with a language before this order becomes instinctive because the order often seems quite arbitrary if not downright capricious . There is however a pattern. You will find many exceptions to the pattern in the table below but it is definitely important to learn the pattern of adjective order if it is not part of what you naturally bring to the language. The categories in the following table can be described as follows THE ROYAL ORDER OF ADJECTIVES Determiner Observation size shape age colour Origin Material Qualifier NOUN Determiners articles and other limiters. See Determiners Observation postdeterminers and limiter adjectives . a real hero a perfect idiot and adjectives subject to subjective measure . beautiful interesting Size and Shape adjectives subject to objective measure . wealthy large round Age adjectives denoting age . young old new ancient Color adjectives denoting color . red black pale Origin denominal adjectives denoting source of noun . French American Canadian Material denominal adjectives denoting what something is made of . woolen metallic wooden Qualifier final limiter often regarded as part of the noun . rocking chair hunting cabin passenger car book cover Posted by David L. UK Word Order for Adjectives Exercise with answers OPINION CONDITION SIZE AGE COLOUR ORIGIN MATERIAL NOUN 1 My smelly old maths teacher my teacher old maths smelly 8 a perfect new system new a perfect system 2 a small old black Turkish box 9 a fantastic 18th century Scottish castle black small box Turkish a old .
