Adjective Order

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<div align="center"> </div><div style="min-height:"><div align="left">Adjectives cannot be written in any order</div> <div align="left">There are rules, so you should use the following order</div> <div align="left">Determiner or article</div> <div align="left">Determiners e.g. this, that, these, those, my, mine, your, yours, him, his, her, hers, they, their, Sam's ; or § Articles - a, an, the</div> الموضوع الأصلى من هنا: English4arab <a href="http://adf.ly/330861/http://www.english4arab.net/vb/t9850-post113248.html">http://www.pubd3m.com/f11-montadat9850-post113248.html</a> <div align="left">Opinionadjective e.g. polite, fun, cute, difficult, hard-working</div> <div align="left">Size, including adjectives, comparatives and superlatives § height; e.g. tall, short, high, low; taller, tallest § width; e.g. wide, narrow, thin, slim; wider, widest § length; e.g. long, short; longer, longest § volume; e.g. fat, huge; fatter, fattest</div> <div align="left">Shape e.g. circular, oval, triangular, square, sided, hexagonal, irregular</div> <div align="left">Age e.g. new, young, adolescent, teenage, middle-aged, old, ancient</div> <div align="left">Colour e.g. red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, white, grey, black, black and white, light blue, dark red, pale blue, reddish brown, off-white, bright green, warm yellow</div> <div align="left">Nationality e.g. Hong Kong, Chinese, English, American, Canadian, Japanese</div> <div align="left">Religion e.g. Buddhist, Taoist, Christian, Moslem, pagan, atheist</div> <div align="left">Material e.g. wood, plastic, metal, ceramic, paper, silk</div> <div align="left">Nounused as an adjective e.g. campus as in 'campus activities'</div> <div align="left">The noun that the adjectives are describing.</div> <div align="left">Sentence structure: Together the article or determiner, adjective(s) and noun(s) make a 'noun phrase'. Noun phrases can also have adverbs describing the adjectives; e.g. nearly circular; and can also have relative clauses, although these are not discussed on this page</div> <div align="left">Style: Although it is possible to write a sentence that uses all the categories; e.g. 'my beautiful, long, curving, new, pink, western, Christian, silk wedding dress', it is bad style as it is too long. Try to use less than five adjectives in a single list. Therefore you could say "Have you seen my beautiful new cream silk wedding dress? It's long and curving, and is in western Christian style."</div></div>