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Practical English Usage (Michael Swan) Adjectives: order before nouns When several adjectives come before a noun (or when nouns are used to modify another noun), they usually have to put in a particular order. Unfortunately, the rules for adjective order are very complicated, and different grammars disagree about the details. Here are some of the most important rules: 1 color, origin, material and purpose Adjectives (or modifying nouns) of color, origin, material and purpose usually go in that order. eg. Color origin material purpose noun red Spanish leather riding boots 2 other adjectives Other adjectives usually go before words of color, origin, material and purpose. It is impossible to give exact rules, but adjectives of size, length and height often come first. the round glass table (NOT the glass round table) a big, modern brick house (NOT a modern, big brick house) long, flexible steel poles ( from mis.bitarafan) |
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