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ADJECTIVE PLACEMENT

ADJECTIVE PLACEMENT

Date: Oct 27 2007

Topic: Grammar

Author: xanthippe

Lesson

there are 9 orders considered in placing adjectives. namely; 1)Article---the, a, and.. 2)numerals---1st, 2nd... 3)opinion---interesting, exciting, beautiful, etc.... 4)dimension---large, big, huge.. 5)shape---oval, square, circle, etc.... 6)quality--this describes the quality of the next number which is...(refer to no. 6) 7)color---red, brown...(when two color exit in a given sentence, it must be in alphabetical order) 8)origin---french, japanese...example; french bread 9)material---plastic bottle, wooden table... example sentences; a) a wonderful Italian clock(opinion-age-origin) b)a big square blue box(dimension-age-origin) c)a handsome, tall, and dark man(opinion-dimension-color) to be continued....

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