Order of Adjectives (Basic)

Opinion comes before size, then colour.

Examples

• a lovely small red car

Key rules

• The usual order is opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material
• So you say a lovely small red car
• Opinion adjectives come first: nice, ugly
• Use two or three adjectives at most for natural speech

Common mistakes

• a red small car → a small red car
• a wooden old table → an old wooden table