Level: B1-B2
Royal Order of Adjectives — Practice
When you put several adjectives before one noun, English uses a fixed order. Practice with 50 correct-order and wrong-order examples through a matching game that drills the royal order rule.
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- Two adjectives — correct vs wrong order
- a small round table – Correct
- a round small table – Wrong
- a beautiful old house – Correct
- an old beautiful house – Wrong
- a young Italian woman – Correct
- an Italian young woman – Wrong
- a long white dress – Correct
- a white long dress – Wrong
- a red wooden chair – Correct
- a wooden red chair – Wrong
- a tiny round button – Correct
- a round tiny button – Wrong
- an old Chinese vase – Correct
- a Chinese old vase – Wrong
- a lovely modern sofa – Correct
- a modern lovely sofa – Wrong
- a delicious Italian dish – Correct
- an Italian delicious dish – Wrong
- a small wooden box – Correct
- a wooden small box – Wrong
- a cold winter day – Correct
- a winter cold day – Wrong
- Three adjectives — correct vs wrong order
- a small round red ball – Correct
- a red small round ball – Wrong
- a beautiful old wooden table – Correct
- a wooden beautiful old table – Wrong
- a long white wedding dress – Correct
- a wedding white long dress – Wrong
- a lovely young Italian woman – Correct
- an Italian lovely young woman – Wrong
- a tall old Chinese man – Correct
- a Chinese old tall man – Wrong
- a cute little black kitten – Correct
- a black little cute kitten – Wrong
- a small round wooden box – Correct
- a wooden round small box – Wrong
- a huge new shopping mall – Correct
- a shopping huge new mall – Wrong
- a nice big yellow umbrella – Correct
- a yellow nice big umbrella – Wrong
- three tall young French athletes – Correct
- three French young tall athletes – Wrong
- a strange ancient stone sculpture – Correct
- a stone ancient strange sculpture – Wrong
- Four adjectives — full sequences
- a beautiful old red wooden chair – Correct
- a wooden red old beautiful chair – Wrong
- a small round red plastic bowl – Correct
- a plastic red round small bowl – Wrong
- a lovely little old Italian village – Correct
- an Italian old little lovely village – Wrong