Order of adjectives

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Description

In English, adjectives are order by opinion, size, physical quality, shape, age, colour, origin, material, type and purpose.

Resources

• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/13/sentence-order-adjectives-rule-elements-of-eloquence-dictionary
• https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/adjectives-order
• https://x.com/MattAndersonNYT/status/772002757222002688

Examples

• "The blue big car" vs. "the big blue car"

Potential False Positives

"the Big Bad Wolf", instead of "the bad big wolf", because of Ablaut-motivated compounding.