多个形容词修饰名词的排列顺序,可通过背诵以下顺口溜来记住它的用法。限定描绘大长高，形状年龄和新老，颜色国籍出材料，作用类别紧挨着。其中限定词又分为前位、中位和后位限定词，而且不但顺序不能颠倒，并且还有互相排斥的特点。其顺口溜为：前位总括分倍数，中位所指不冠物，后位全是序基词，还有other, another和such。例如：My friend bought a splendid big white Canadian wooden house.
前位限定词是指：all, both, one third, twenty percent 等；中位限定词是指：one’s, this , that, these, those, either, neither, a, an the, my ,your;后位限定词是指：one, two,…the first, the second, other, another ,such其中为兼类词such，既是前位，又是后位限定词。例如：
all the first few days one of my old friends this book of mine these ten strong young Chinese students such a lovely girl One such book is enough.
