order of adjectives before a noun?

Question

adjectives of color, nationality, quantity, quality, type, age, and ,,,, .Which comes first ? What about the rest?

Answer 1

quantity, quality, colour, nationality, age, type

eg

3 clever black british 10 year old girls

Answer 2

Mina is close, though her position for "color" is rather odd. Usually it is placed at the END of the "physical characteristics" - after size, shape and age.

So, using your terms, the basic list would be something like this:

- Determiners ('the, these, my...')
- Quantity
- Quality (= opinion, observation... more subjective)

PHYSICAL FEATURES
- Size
- Shape
- Age
- Color

- Origin (may =Nationality)
- Material (made from)
- Type, purpose

___________

For a couple of slightly different ways of describing these categories, with nice tables and examples, check the two links below.

The first may be the most convenient, the second is much more detailed AND includes some notes about which adjectives are more-or-less 'fixed' in order, and which may sometimes move.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adjectives.htm#order
http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/englishcorner/grammar/rules/adjord.html

Answer 3

In other languages there are rules. But not in English.