Select the correct order of adjectives from the three options.
a. a cotton green new dress
b. a new green cotton dress
c. a green new cotton dress
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Answers
Explanation:
We often use more than one adjective before the noun:
I like big black dogs.
She was wearing a beautiful long red dress.
What is the correct order for two or more adjectives?
1. First of all, the general order is:
opinion, fact
"Opinion" is what you think about something. "Fact" is what is definitely true about something.
a lovely new dress (not a new lovely dress)
a boring French film (not a French boring film)
2. The "normal" order for fact adjectives is
size, shape, age, colour / origin / material / purpose
a small 18th-century French coffee table
a rectangular black wooden box
3. Determiners usually come first, even though some grammarians regard them as fact adjectives:
articles (a, the)
possessives (my, your...)
demonstratives (this, that...)
quantifiers (some, any, few, many...)
numbers (one, two, three)