Royal Order of Adjectives

Welcome to study English in this series we will study about Describing something. How to order them, and how to compare and describe things? 

First, read some descriptions about the picture below. 

The car is big, its made from plastics and the colour is red. We can turn it into a phrase. 

The big red plastic car. 

Look at the words below and try to order them in a phrase. 

-wooden-useful-Lily's-box-square-

answer: 

Lily's useful square wooden box

How to know which order to put the Adjectives in? There are some rules. We call the rules is

*Royal Order of Adjectives* they are

1. Determiner (articles/numbers/amount/owner) determiner can be a car, the, many, some, or a name like Dina's... 

2. Observation/opinion.This tell you something about the quality such as beautiful, ugly, handsome, cheap, heavy, and some more

3. Physical Description

(size, shape, age, colour) then we have size such as big, small, huge, tiny. After size folow by shape such as circular, ractangular, oval and many more. Follow by age like modern, 15 years old, midle-age. Then follow by colour such as blue, green, black... 

4. Origin

After physical descriptions, its follow by origin where the noun is from such as Indonesia, China, Japan, .. 

5. Material

Follow by material, what the things is made of like gold, wooden, Copper, plastic, ... 

6. Qualifier

Lastly follow by qualifier, this is something that's integral part of the noun such as a weeding ring, an electric oven, ...

7. Head of Noun

The more you build your vocabulary of Adjectives the better your ability to describe thing acccurately.

*word of order*

Determiner+opinion+(size, age, shape, colour) +origin+material+qualifier+ head noun

Look at some examples below! 

1. work/heavy/schedule/their

Their (determiner) heavy (opinion) work (qualifier) schedule (noun) 

2. modern/labs/new/two/computer

Two (determiner) new (opinion) modern (age) computer (qualifier) labs (noun) 

3. each/experiment/successful

Each (determiner) successful (opinion) experiment (noun)

4. inexpensive/imported/those/product

Those (determiner) inexpensive (opinion) imported (qualifier) products (noun)

5. scientist/the/matuare-age/anxious

The (determiner) anxious (opinion) mature-aged (age) scientist (noun)

6. fabric/red/an/cotton/interior

An (determiner) inferior (opinion) red (color) cotton (material) fabric (noun)

7. company's/angineer/the/chief

The company's (determiner) chief (qualifier) engineer (noun)

8. pollution/some/levels/dengerous

Some (determiner) dangerous (opinion) pollution (qualifier) levels (noun)

9. packaging/blue/attractive

Attractive (opinion) blue (color) packaging (noun)

10. economic/slight/a/improvement

A (determiner) slight (opinion) economic (qualifier) improvement (noun)

*Kesimpulan dari mempelajari Royal Order of Adjectives* adalah

1. Determiner (articles/numbers/amount/owner) adalah sebuah partikel kata yang biasa terdapat di bagian awal kalimat atau kata yang digunakan untuk membatasi suatu kalimat baik berupa angka, kepemilikan , dll contohnya _Their, Two, Those, A/An, Some, dll_

2. Observation/opinion adalah suatu ungkapan kata yang digunakan untuk mendeskripsikan kata benda (noun) secara non-fisik contohnya _beautiful, expensive, inferior, dangerous, dll_

3. Physical Description

(size, shape, age, colour) adalah suatu ungkapan kata untuk mendeskripsikan kata benda (noun) dilihat dari penampakan fisiknya, bisa dilihat melalui usia, bentuknya, warna, ataupun tekstur dari benda tersebut contoh _sharp, red, blue, old, long, dll_

4. Origin adalah kedaerahan/asal, biasanya menyebutkan aspek kedaerahan/kenegaraan/tempat asal contohnya _Melbourne, Denpasar, Indian, Canadian, Thai dll_

5. Material adalah kata yang digunakan untuk menyebutkan spesifikasi suatu benda dalam sebuah kalimat contohnya _cotton, wood, plastic, glass, dll_

6. Qualifier adalah bagian dari compound noun (noun yang terbentuk dari dua atau lebih kata) contohnya _computer labs_ merupakan 1 noun namun terdiri dari 2 kata, sehingga _computer_ merupakan qualifier dari noun tersebut

7. Head Noun adalah noun yang diikuti oleh qualifiernya contohnya _computer labs_ yang merupakan head noun adalah _labs_

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Lets practice! 

1. -largest-the-reef : ... 

2 -car-red-the-big-plastic: ... 

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