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Adjective order in English
Barnaul, 2014
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Some rules to remember:
Fact adjectives come after opinion ones
examples: a nice blue dress
nice - opinionblue - factan unusual gold ring
gold - factunusual - opinion
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1. Opinion adjectives express quality: character: price:
good, new, delicious, ugly, beautiful, nice, dirty and etc.polite, honest, cheeky, cocky, cynical, flighty and etc.
cheap, expensive, 10$, precious and etc.
2. Fact adjectives have the following order: Size: Age: Shape: Colour: Material: Origin:
big, little, tall, high, low and etc.old, young, elderly, new-born and etc.
square, round, cone-shaped, star-shaped and etc.red, black, yellow, purple, green, white, blue and etc.
steel, rubber, cotton, plastic, metal, silver and etc.Italian, Russian, china-made, Scottish and etc.
Example: a nice long oval dark wooden tablenice – opinion, long – size, oval – shape, dark – colour, wooden - material
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Purpose adjectives come just before nouns
Purpose means “for what” (для чего)
a new steel carving knife – новый стальной разделочный нож
a big green sleeping bag – большой зелёный спальный мешок
Examples:
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Superlatives come before other adjectives
Examples:
the first two yearsthe biggest well-known star
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Sum it up!
Fact adjectives come after opinion ones
Purpose adjectives come just before nouns
Superlatives come before other adjectives
Example:The first comfortable Russian passenger train – первый российский
комфортный пассажирский поезд
the first - superlativecomfortable - opinion
Russian - fact passenger - purpose
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Good luck!