Choose a grammatically correct sentence from the given options:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Sophia bought a beautiful blue cotton dress.
Order of adjectives:
- When several adjectives come before a noun, they follow a fixed order:
- opinion → size → age → shape → colour → origin → material → purpose → noun.
- This sentence: beautiful (opinion) → blue (colour) → cotton (material) → dress.
Example: She wore a lovely red silk saree to the wedding.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 1: Sophia bought a cotton beautiful blue dress. — Incorrect. The material adjective "cotton" comes first; it must stand next to the noun.
Option 2: Sophia bought a blue cotton beautiful dress. — Incorrect. The opinion adjective "beautiful" comes last; opinion must come first.
Option 4: Sophia bought a cotton blue beautiful dress. — Incorrect. The order is fully reversed: material, colour, opinion instead of opinion, colour, material.
Contrast: the opinion adjective comes first and the material adjective stands next to the noun: a beautiful blue cotton dress.