Sometimes we use two or more adjectives together. For example:
He is a tall young man.
Young is a fact adjective. Fact adjectives give us objective information about something, such as age, size, color, etc. Tall is an opinion adjective. Opinion adjectives tell us what someone thinks about something.
Opinion adjectives usually go before fact adjectives.
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opinion |
fact |
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a |
nice |
sunny |
day |
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|
delicious |
hot |
soup |
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an |
intelligent |
young |
man |
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a |
beautiful |
large round wooden |
table |
Sometimes there are two or more fact adjectives. Very often (but not always) we put adjectives in this order:
How big? –> how old? –> what color? –> where from? –> what is it made of? ——– Noun
Example:
A tall young man (1 –> 2)
Big blue eyes (1 –> 3)
An old white cotton shirt (2 –> 3 –> 5)
*source: English Grammar in Use (Raymond Murphy)
