When more than two or more adjectives come before a noun, these usually follow a particular order. Adjectives which describe opinions or attitudes (e.g. interesting, good, bad, lovely) usually come first, before more neutral, factual ones (size, age, shape, colour, etc).
When two or more adjectives come before a noun, there is a specific order you have to follow. Without this order, the sentence would sound unnatural. Obviously, we don’t usually have 7 or 8 adjectives describing a noun. In fact, it would be rare to find a sentence that uses more than three adjectives to modify a noun.
O-S-A-S-C-O-M-P: opinion - size - age - shape - colour - origin - material - purpose
The order is not 100% fixed and there are some categories of adjectives such as condition (dirty, clean, wet…) or pattern (spotted, checked, zigzag…) which have not been considered.
Some examples:
A wonderful big ol white historical building.
A delicious huge round Italian bacon pizza.
A cheap small new rectangular black Chinese plastic phone.
A beautiful long new white Mexican silk wedding dress.
O-S-A-S-C-O-M-P: opinion - size - age - shape - colour - origin - material - purpose
The order is not 100% fixed and there are some categories of adjectives such as condition (dirty, clean, wet…) or pattern (spotted, checked, zigzag…) which have not been considered.
Some examples:
A wonderful big ol white historical building.
A delicious huge round Italian bacon pizza.
A cheap small new rectangular black Chinese plastic phone.
A beautiful long new white Mexican silk wedding dress.
