The Grammar Slam: Adjectives.

Take a second to assess your faculties.  Are you a native speaker of American Standard English?  Non-native speakers will, no doubt, encounter adjective placement problems.  One adjective is easy, but it's also no fun.  Native speakers will find that they already possess tacit knowledge about much of grammar, and, therefore, will find this useless.  Unless they're absolutely dense.

When listed, adjectives follow a strict order: article, evaluation, size, length/shape, age, color, nationality, religion, material, noun-adjective, and then, finally, the noun modified.  This task can be daunting, and that's why I devised an easily remembered phrase that should assist you in your writings.

The attractive small round red Russian Catholic wooden kitchen table looks great in my new breakfast nook.  Table being the noun modified.

However, if the adjectives listed belong to the same category -- the delicious, attractive, hostile, careless kitchen table was convicted of murder -- they have to be separated by commas.

All you have to do is remember: The Attractive Small Round Red Russian Catholic Wooden Kitchen Table.  TASRRRCWKT.  Simple.

Need help?  A great anagram for this acronym is STWARRRCKT.  (Just don't forget to put them back in order!)

I'm super stwarked about this!

Jamie Michelle