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Adjective Order

This document discusses the order that adjectives should be placed before nouns. It states that opinion adjectives come before fact adjectives. Within fact adjectives, there is a standard order of value, size, age, temperature, shape, colour, origin, material, existence, style, pattern, and purpose. It provides a mnemonic device to remember this order as "Very Soon A Train Should COME."

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Adjective Order

This document discusses the order that adjectives should be placed before nouns. It states that opinion adjectives come before fact adjectives. Within fact adjectives, there is a standard order of value, size, age, temperature, shape, colour, origin, material, existence, style, pattern, and purpose. It provides a mnemonic device to remember this order as "Very Soon A Train Should COME."

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ADJECTIVE ORDER

ADJECTIVE ORDER
You can put more than one adjec0ve before a noun, but these go in a par0cular order: 1. Opinion adjec0ves + Fact Adjec0ves a beau&ful old house an interes&ng Russian novel

ADJECTIVE ORDER
2. If there is more that one fact adjec0ve they follow this order: VALUE SIZE
Cheap Big AGE TEMPERATURE SHAPE COLOUR ORIGIN MATERIAL EXISTANCE STYLE PATTERN purpose Old Hot Long Pink Striped Italian Silk Sleeping

ADJECTIVE ORDER
A good way to remember adjec0ve order is to learn this sentence: Very Soon A Train Should COME

VALUE SIZE AGE TEMPERATURE SHAPE COLOUR ORIGIN MATERIAL EXISTANCE STYLE PATTERN purpose Cheap Big

Old Hot

Long

Pink Striped

Italian

Silk

Sleeping

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