“Adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you’ll sound like a maniac. It’s an odd thing that every English speaker uses that list, but almost none of us could write it out.”
Check out this blog post - it's really interesting.
Showing posts with label parts of speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parts of speech. Show all posts
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Some sites you might like to check out ...
Some sites you might like to check out for when you are working with children ......
https://sites.google.com/site/easygrammar4kids/parts-of-speech
https://sites.google.com/site/easygrammar4kids/parts-of-speech
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