Choose the correct sentence from the given options.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → She met a hundred bright, young Japanese college students.
Order of adjectives:
- When several adjectives come before a noun, they follow a fixed order:
- number (a hundred) → opinion (bright) → size → age (young) → shape → colour → origin (Japanese) → material → purpose or type (college) → noun.
- "Hundred" as a number needs a or one before it: a hundred students.
- This sentence: a hundred (number) + bright (opinion) + young (age) + Japanese (origin) + college (type) + students.
Example: She bought a beautiful old Italian table.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 1: She met hundred young Japanese bright college students. — Incorrect.
- "hundred" has no "a" before it.
- The opinion word "bright" comes after age and origin; it must come first.
Option 2: She met a hundred young Japanese bright college students. — Incorrect. The opinion word "bright" is placed after age (young) and origin (Japanese).
Option 3: She met a hundred Japanese bright, young college students. — Incorrect. The origin word "Japanese" is placed before opinion and age; it must come just before "college".