Could you help me understand the change in meaning when I invert these sentences?
A shop of long standing
A long standing shop
We are a family of seven.
We are a seven family.
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Sign up to join this communityFor sentence 1: In this case changing the word order will not change the meaning of the sentence. What you did is placing the prepositional complement (of long standing) at the end, which emphasizes the fact, that it has existed for along time.
I don't think that "We are a seven family." would be semantically correct or at least have I never heard anyone say it this way. I believe it would be similar to this example:
Where the indirect object is put in front, which is usually not done.