ORDER OF DETERMINERS, ADJECTIVES AND NOUNS

1. Order of Determiners,
Adjectives, and Nouns

2. What is a
DETERMINER?

3. A determiner is a word that
introduces a noun or provides
information about the
quantity of a noun.

4. - always comes before a noun,
and it also comes before any
other adjectives used to describe
the noun.
DETERMINER

5. Determiners include the following common types:
Articles: a, an, the
Demonstratives: this, that, these, those
Possessives: my, your, his, her, etc.
Quantifiers: (a) few, some, many, etc.
Numbers: one, two, three, etc.

6. Adjective describes a
nouns or pronouns.
And most adjectives
come before nouns.

7. There are times when
several adjectives describe
a single noun.

9. Adjectives follow a
certain order when there
are more than one found in
a sentence.

10. Adjectives follow this order:
1. Opinion – pretty, beautiful, ugly, dirty and etc.
2. Size – small, big, medium and etc.
3. Shape – round, triangular, rectangular, and etc.
4. Age – old, young, elderly and etc.
5. Color – red, blue, black and etc.

11. new
pretty
red
square
small
opinion-size-shape-age-color

12. pretty small
square new red
bag

13. In a sentence, this should be the order
of determiners, adjectives and nouns.

15. Let Us Try This!!!

16. determiner + (opinion-size-shape-age-
color) + noun
black two shoes old ugly
small

17. determiner + (opinion-size-shape-age-
color) + noun
two ugly small old black shoes

18. determiner + (opinion-size-shape-age-
color) + noun
Frog five big green ugly

19. determiner + (opinion-size-shape-age-
color) + noun
five ugly big green frog

20. determiner + (opinion-size-shape-age-
color) + noun
pink a dress new
beautiful

21. determiner + (opinion-size-shape-age-
color) + noun
a beautiful new pink dress