英文形容詞使用規則

1. 英文形容詞的使用順序

When more than one adjective comes before a noun, the adjectives are normally in a particular order. Adjectives which describe opinions or attitudes (e.g. amazing) usually come first, before more neutral, factual ones (e.g. red):
• She was wearing an amazing red coat.

If we don't want to emphasis any one of the adjectives, the most usual sequence of adjectives is:


Order	Relating to	Examples
1	Opinion 意見/看法	unusual, lovely, beautiful
2	Size 尺寸/大小	big, small, tall
3	Physical quality 質量/特性	thin, rough, untidy
4	Shape 形狀	round, square, rectangular
5	Age 年紀	young, old, youthful
6	Color 顏色	blue, red, pink
7	Origin 血統/起源	Dutch, Japanese, Turkish
8	Material 材質/原料	metal, wood, plastic
9	Type 樣式/類型	general-purpose, four-sided, U-shaped
10	Purpose 效果/用途	cleaning, hammering, cooking

E.g.

• It was made of a strange, green, metallic material.
• It's a long, narrow, plastic brush.
• Panettone is a round, Italian, bread-like Christmas cake.

2. 較長句子與使用範例

Here are some invented examples of longer adjective phrases. A noun phrase which included all these types would be extremely rare, e.g.:
• She was a beautiful, tall, thin, young, black-haired Scottish woman.
• What an amazing, little, old, Chinese cup and saucer!

3. 在最後一組的形容詞之間使用”and”連接

When more than one adjective occurs after a verb such as “be” (a linking verb), the second last adjective is normally connected to the last adjective by “and”:
• Home was always a warm, welcoming place. Now it is sad, dark and cold.

4. 名詞之前有二個以上的形容詞

And is less common when more than one adjective comes before the noun (e.g. a warm, welcoming place). However, we can use and when there are two or more adjectives of the same type, or when the adjectives refer to different parts of the same thing:
• It was a blue and green cotton shirt.

參考來源：https://dictionary.cambridge.org/




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