2015-11-02 Grammar: order of noun modifiers

Greg Malivuk
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Homework: write five sentences describing halloween costumes you see tonight or this weekend
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p. 152 exercise 3 - work with your partner to put the adjectives in the correct order
2 really useful (“really” is an intensifying adverb that goes with “useful”, so it goes first)
3 bright purple flannel (“bright” modifies “purple”, and has to come first)
4 pretty new French
5 original plastic
6 incredibly ugly, useless antique
  useless, incredibly ugly antique
7 plenty of expensive brand-new brightly colored European
8 over-crowded little dark bedroom
9 nice handmade Italian
10 nice new
11 poor old
12 terrible frightening
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determiners:
- articles (a/an, the)
- possessives (my, our, his, her, its, their, your, Greg’s, etc.)
- demonstratives (this, that, these, those)
- interrogatives (which, what)
- quantifiers (each, every, some, plenty of, a few)
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more fundamental adjectives go last:
a black European car, but a European black bear
(because a black bear is a specific type of bear, not just a bear with black color)