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She has long, straight, black hair. Is the order of adjectives correct here.
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How about commas? Do you need them in this sentence?
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Actually, English grammar does not specify the ordering of adjactives among themselves. So there following versions are also correct:

She has black, straight, long hair.
She has straight, black, long hair.
She has straight, long, black hair.
She has black, long, straight hair.
...

or any other permutation.

In fact, it is sometimes correct to put the adjactive after the noun, just like adjactives in French and Spanish. Technically speaking, there are no rules on the relative positions of adjactives and the nouns they are describing.
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Actually, English grammar does not specify the ordering of adjactives among themselves.

Your reference for this please?
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Default Re: order of adjectives

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Actually, English grammar does not specify the ordering of adjactives among themselves.

Your reference for this please?
Please refer to

order of adjectives before nouns english grammar learnenglish

There are guidelines on ordering of adjactives, but no agreed-upon rules.
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Practically the first sentence I read on your given reference site is,
and I cut and paste:


He does, however, go on to list some of the most important rules:

You change the order, and you change the sense:

She has black, straight, long hair.

This reply is what a reader would expect, if I had just described a female thief as having short, straight, black hair, and the policeman tells me that another witness described the thief as you had written, the policeman emphasizing the most dissimilar aspect by placing it last - "She has black, straight, long hair."
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Default Re: order of adjectives

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Practically the first sentence I read on your given reference site is,
and I cut and paste:


He does, however, go on to list some of the most important rules:

You change the order, and you change the sense:

She has black, straight, long hair.

This reply is what a reader would expect, if I had just described a female thief as having short, straight, black hair, and the policeman tells me that another witness described the thief as you had written, the policeman emphasizing the most dissimilar aspect by placing it last - "She has black, straight, long hair."
Google search for 'order of adjectives'
htt://learnenglish.org.uk/grammar/adjective/adjective_order.html
Colour-origin-material-purpose-noun
red-spanish-leather-riding-boots.
Size,length,height before noun. And....
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