Showing posts with label parts of speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parts of speech. Show all posts

Sunday, 28 May 2017

The language rules we know - but don't know we know

“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.