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مشاهدة النسخة كاملة : Adjective order in English


whoseen
2015-02-27, 14:23
SALAM DEAR FRIENDS :dj_17:
I hope u r fine :19:
today am dealing with a problem that ocuurs to us whenever we r dealing with writing ...it is the order of adjectives in case we have more than one in a single sentence :confused:

lets begin with this example
The "ugly red wooden box" sounds correct, but the "wooden red ugly box" sounds wrong. There is a "rule" describing the order English adjectives are used in:

1- Opinion or judgment -- beautiful, ugly, easy, fast, interesting
2- Size -- small, tall, short, big
3-Age -- young, old, new, historic, ancient
4-Shape -- round, square, rectangular
5- Color -- red, black, green, purple
6-Nationality -- French, Asian, American, Canadian, Japanese
7-Material -- wooden, plastic, plastic, glass, paper
8-Purpose or Qualifier -- foldout sofa, fishing boat, racing car

So: the "beautiful long old curved red Italian steel racing car"


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peace out

toulay
2015-02-27, 17:43
Peace be upon you

Thank you

By the way,I tackled a topic like this one ,it's entitled multiple adjectives

Here is the link
http://www.djelfa.info/vb/showthread.php?t=1331064

Best of luck

Luffy2
2015-02-28, 21:37
Great!! .. Thank you

نارينا
2015-03-01, 00:41
I don't tend to commit mistakes
when it comes to ordering adjectives

Lucky me !!!!
Thank you for publishing such a fruitful subject !!