The Order of Adjectives in English When you have more than one adjective before a noun, they must come in a specific order. The categories and their order are shown below. quantity / number quality / opinion size age shape color origin material purpose noun Three beautiful large round blue French wooden dining chairs Some excellent ancient Swiss parchment ledger books Seven large old brown Thai guard dogs More examples: one many few some beautiful boring delicious horrible terrific big huge large small tiny ancient new modern old young round oval square triangular blue green red yellow American Chinese French Thai cotton glass metal plastic wooden cooking dining running sleeping writing