![]() I hope that helps explain both the order of adjectives, and when to use commas with coordinate adjectives. She wore an antique long blue silk dress.īut this version works better with Size first: She wore a floor-length antique blue silk dress. I think Age comes before Size in this example: So which comes first, shape or age? Again, it comes down to judgment. For example, another version of the order of adjectives omits Determiner, reverses Shape and Age, and renames Qualifier: Yes, sometimes the order of adjectives is a matter of judgement. Some versions of the Royal Order of Adjectives combine Size and Shape, which means we might add a comma in this example: She wore a long, flowing blue silk dress.Īlthough we might argue that “flowing” is an observation, which gives us: She wore a flowing long blue silk dress. We wouldn’t write: She wore a long blue, green silk dress. ![]() ![]() So if the dress was blue and green, we’d write: She wore a long blue and green silk dress. The order of the adjectives is important, as outlined in the Royal Order of Adjectives: If we change the order of the adjectives, we either change the meaning of the sentence, or write a sentence which doesn’t make sense: She wore a silk blue long dress. We’d write: She wore a long blue silk dress. If the answer to either (or both) questions is no, then no comma is needed. If you can answer yes to both questions, then we need a comma.
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