Fact | Opinion |
(they give objective information) large / new / round / young hot / sunny / small | (they tell us what someone thinks of something) nice / beautiful / delicious / intelligent / good-looking |
Opinion adjectives usually go before the fact adjectives: |
opinionfact a nice sunny day delicious hot soup an intelegent young man |
Sometimes there are two or more fact adjectives. Very often (but not always) we put fact adjectives in this order. |
1 how big? | how old? | what colour? | where from? | what is it made of? |
a tall young man big blue eyes a small black plastic bag an old white cotton shirt | (1 ~ 2) (1 ~ 3) (1 ~ 3 ~ 5) (2 ~ 3 ~ 5) |
S + Verb + | ~ er more | + than + | noun pronoun |
He speaks English more fluently than Peter.
He speaks English better than me