Adjective order comes naturally to many English speakers because to them a sentence just вЂњsounds rightвЂќ when adjectives are used in the вЂњcorrectвЂќ order. Interestingly, a speaker is likely to say the first sentence without even considering what order the adjectives should be in. To a native English speaker, the sentence I bought seven yummy red apples sounds a lot better than I bought red yummy seven apples. In either case, things are pretty simple when we only use one adjective.Д«ut what if we want to use more than one adjective to describe the same noun? Well, then, you need to buckle up because this grammatical ride is about to get bumpy. Adjectives can also come after a linking verb, as in Blanca is cute. Most of the time, we place adjectives directly before the nouns they modify, as in Blanca is a cute kitten. In writing and speech, we can put adjectives in two different places.

This is just one of many weird things that often make English an especially tricky language to learn. Native and fluent speakers of English carry around in our heads a lot of invisible rules and guidelines about how English works, and one of them is the order in which we place adjectives. The grouchy little Persian cat wanted food. How about The little Persian grouchy cat wanted food? No, something still sounds off. The Persian grouchy little cat wanted food.

Royal order of adjectives beginning