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Order of adjectives
In English there is a "rule" of syntax that few native English speakers have ever been taught. Foreign students, however, need to learn it.
This concerns the order of adjectives attached to a single noun in a sentence. Native English speakers seem to follow the rule intuitively. One can classify adjectives into a sequence of 7 types : 1 Personal opinion: beautiful, interesting 2 Size: big, small 3 Age: young, old 4 Shape: round, square 5 Colour: red, yellow 6 Nationality: Spanish, English 7 Material: plastic, glass 8 Purpose: hearing (aid) So, one would say: An interesting 1 little 2 old 3 black 5 American 6 woman. Any other order sounds "un-English" Do Spanish adjectives follow a similar sequence? |
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