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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Mullberry on 22 Oct, 2021, 09:36:47 am

Title: The list you did'nt know you knew
Post by: Mullberry on 22 Oct, 2021, 09:36:47 am

Adjectives in the English language absolutely have to be in a certain order, this is

Opinion-Size-Age-Shape-Colour-Origin-Material-Purpose-Noun.

So you can have a Lovely little old round blue French porcelain coffee cup.

But if you mess with that order you will sound like an maniac, the strange thing is that every native English speaker knows and uses this list but almost none could write it down.
So Old porcelain lovely blue round French little coffee cups just cannot exist.

Title: Re: The list you did'nt know you knew
Post by: Judi_bk on 22 Oct, 2021, 09:45:51 am

Wow!!! Tried it and it's right but I didn't know

Title: Re: The list you did'nt know you knew
Post by: frankie on 22 Oct, 2021, 09:53:55 am

OMG!  Yes!  So, if we were not taught this in school (I'm sure I wasn't), how come we automatically know it???
 :huh: