2016-08-26 Grammar: order of adjectives, participles

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - Notes from all my classes
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Homework: read p. 150 about the order of adjectives, and do p. 152 exercise 3
2 really useful
3 bright purple flannel (“bright” modifies “purple”, and “flannel” is the material)
4 pretty new French
5 original plastic
6 incredibly ugly useless antique
7 plenty of expensive brand-new brightly-colored European
8 little, overcrowded dark bedroom
9 nice handmade Italian
10 nice new
11 poor old
12 terrible, frightening

order of adjectives: OSASCCOM
Opinion - could be different for everybody
Size - kind of opinion
Age - kind of opinion, and changes
Shape - not opinion, but can change
Condition - not opinion, but can change
Color - not opinion, but can change
Origin - can’t change
Material - can’t change
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Remember: before any adjectives, we put determiners (quantifiers, possessives, articles)
	after adjectives, we put noun modifiers (for compound nouns)
	after all the adjective and noun modifiers, we put the head noun
	after the head noun, we put modifying (prepositional or participle) phrases

three big red balls in the corner
the old broken TV sitting in the garage
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Participle modifiers = adjectives formed from the participles of verbs
	present participle: verb(ing) form - boring, interesting, surprising, tiring
	past participle: “third” form - bored, interested, surprised, tired

Most of these are opinions, and some conditions (such as “broken”)

The boring teacher’s students don’t like him. They feel bored.
The bored teacher doesn’t like his students. They are boring.

The end of the movie was very surprising.
I was surprised by the end of the movie.

The students were bored because the teacher was boring.
The teacher was bored because the students were boring.
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p. 153 - examples
p. 155 - on the board