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This table (pages 1 & 2) gives a general guide to the order of adjectives in sentence building.

Each column gives examples of the kind of words that could be used:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

physical description:

 

 

 

 

 

opinion:

fact:

 

article/determiner/number/pronoun etc.:

 

sequence word:

quantifier:

observation/opinion:

size and length:

shape and width:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a

 

first

many

perfect

large

square

an

 

next

two

interesting

big

triangular

the

 

last

much

nice

small

wide

this

 

hundredth

few

good

long

round

that

 

fifteenth

little

beautiful

short

flat

four

 

former

very

delicious

huge

rectangular

ten

 

primary

quite

ugly

tiny

oblong

our

 

secondary

really

stupid

gigantic

fat

his

 

latest

rather

difficult

tall

thin

her

 

 

 

foolish

 

overweight

their

 

 

 

weird

 

narrow

some

 

 

 

amazing

 

 

several

 

 

 

soft