'What's your favourite colour?', 'What colour are your eyes?' or 'What colour is the car?' - these are the most common questions about colour in English. If you know the names of the colours in English, you will answer those questions.
Here is the list of the most common colour:
the colour of snow, milk or bone
the darkest colour like a very dark night.
Roses are red, violets are blue.
Green is the colour of grass.
Blue
The sky was blue.
Purple
Purple is the colour of plum.
Pink
The pink lipstick is my mam's.
Brown
The colour of coffee is brown.
Grey/Gray
The air was thick with the grey smoke of cigars.
Warning
Color is the American spelling of colour. Other than the spelling, there is no difference between the two words.
Colour+ish
If something is similar to the colour that you want to describe, you can use the suffix –ish (though not black or white).
- greenish car (almost green)
- reddish hair
Shades
A shade of a particular colour is one of its different types or degrees. For example, navy blue is a shade of blue.
We commonly use light, bright and dark to describe a colour.
You can talk about shades of colour by using nature words.
sky blue, forest green, midnight blue, etc.
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