When more than one adjective comes before a noun, the adjectives are normally in a particular order. Adjectives which describe opinions or attitudes (e.g. amazing) usually come first, before more neutral, factual ones (e.g. red):
If we don’t want to emphasise any one of the adjectives, the most usual sequence of adjectives is:
Here are some invented examples of longer adjective phrases. A noun phrase which included all these types would be extremely rare.
Adjectives joined by andWhen more than one adjective occurs after a verb such as be (a linking verb), the second last adjective is normally connected to the last adjective by and:
And is less common when more than one adjective comes before the noun (e.g. a warm, welcoming place). However, we can use and when there are two or more adjectives of the same type, or when the adjectives refer to different parts of the same thing:
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