Questions tagged [adjective-order]
For questions about the order of a series of adjectives and/or attributive nouns.
77
questions
0
votes
0answers
21 views
'Some' how to check its usage as a Determiner or as adjective of number
It is said that 'some' classifies as an adjective of number and it is also used as a determiner.
1- When 'some' is used as an adjective in a sentence, how do we check whether it's being used as an ...
1
vote
3answers
66 views
What is the grammatical structure of “I woke up tired”?
I woke up tired.
I grew up rich.
Can someone explain the position and functions of the adjectives tired, rich, poor in these sentences? Aren't adjectives supposed to always precede or succeed a noun ...
0
votes
1answer
2k views
Last year, Joanna bought two … coats in New York
Could you complete the sentence and explain? I don't know the correct answer. I encountered this question at the British Council test but they did not provide any answer end of the test.
Last year, ...
0
votes
0answers
36 views
OSASCOMP soft warm or warm soft? Does NOSACSCOMP offer the needed guidance?
Winter continues to chill us in Colorado. I enjoy lounging in my warm, soft sleep pants. Or are they soft and warm? I couldn't figure out which OSASCOMP category warm belongs in. To me, soft seems ...
0
votes
0answers
18 views
adjective order
What is the correct order of adjectives in the following sentence?
Comedians use offensive off-color jokes to make incredibly hysterical
movies.
Offensive off-color jokes
Off-color offensive jokes
...
0
votes
0answers
17 views
Which is better 'recent impressive incidents' or 'impressive recent incidents'?
When I practiced writing in English, the order between the adjectives were so confusing.
I have ever heard that the order of adjectives in the sentence is determined by the meaning of each, but I don'...
0
votes
1answer
29 views
Why do we say “main site header” and “main site style” instead of “site main header” and “site main style”?
When I want to say that a website has a main header, I and almost everyone else say the main site header, but I feel this is wrong because the adjective refers to the header, not the website. The same ...
0
votes
1answer
17 views
Order of consecutive determinatives
Is there any accepted order for different determiners? I read in an article that “determiners” come before adjectives, but what about different kinds of determiner? For example:
The memory of Lilian’...
-1
votes
2answers
82 views
Is adj+noun=noun+(which to be) adj?
It was not the action intentional = It was not the action which was intentional = It was not the intentional action.
Is 1st sentence right and is it grammatically correct? is the 1st sentence equal to ...
0
votes
1answer
117 views
Correct order of adjectives [duplicate]
Is there any rule governing the order of adjectives, when we use consecutive adjectives? For example, is the order of the adjectives in the following sentence correct? I mean the order of "his, ...
1
vote
2answers
72 views
adjective order: clean, treated water or treated, clean water?
I'd like to know which order of adjectives is correct in the following sentence.
If both are OK, what's the difference?
Finally, the wastewater flows into the last tanks, where the chemical chlorine ...
1
vote
1answer
196 views
“Thick red dotted line”, or “dotted thick red line”, or…?
I would say "dotted red line", but I'm very unsure. Dictionary and web searches didn't lead to a definitive answer. This answer points to a British Council link which seems to confirm "...
0
votes
1answer
94 views
Cowardly - Adjective or Adverb?
In the following sentence, is the word 'cowardly' an adjective or adverb?
He acted in a cowardly manner.
What I understand is the word cowardly is modifying the verb act. So it should be an adverb. ...
0
votes
0answers
23 views
some confusing expressions with number
When I want to express one of the series in harry potter,
which one is better?
ex) Third episode is my favorite among whole series.
Third episode/
episode three
Are all of them can be used?
If not, ...
0
votes
1answer
97 views
Whose all efforts vs All whose efforts [closed]
He is a fortunate person whose all efforts succeed.
He is a fortunate person all of whose efforts succeed.
Which sentence is correct? My grammar book is saying second sentence is correct. But ...
1
vote
1answer
152 views
“a movie worth seeing” or “a worth seeing movie”
It is a worth seeing movie and you must not miss it.
It is a movie worth seeing and you must not miss it.
Which is correct? What is the difference in meaning between these two sentences?
0
votes
1answer
131 views
“a suitable man for” or “a man suitable for”
He is a suitable man for any post.
He is a man suitable for any post.
Which of the following sentences is correct? What is the difference in meaning between these?
0
votes
2answers
60 views
“good cute girl” vs. “cute good girl”: adjective order when they're of the same kind
for example if I say good cute girl or cute good girl does it make any difference?
because both Cute and Good are Opinions.
if both are correct which one is more common and why?
0
votes
1answer
28 views
participles at the same time
While I was reading a magazine, I saw a sentence that makes me think about orders, placements of the participles.
Anyone caught playing faced fines and even potential jail time.
I think that the ...
1
vote
2answers
46 views
The word 'forward' is an adjective or an adverb here
A bit of forward planning would have helped.
If I'm not wrong then the word 'forward' is an adjective here. Because it's modifying the word 'planning'.let me know, I'm right.
For a start, adjectives ...
0
votes
1answer
34 views
Order among a participle, article and noun & about “for”
Reading my logic textbook, I faced the following two sentences, of which I’m kind of confused.
(1) For given a formula A in Γ, take n so large that …
(2) ... in which P1 takes the value i(P1). ...
0
votes
2answers
62 views
Adjective order doesn't sound right
Consider the following. Which one is correct to fill the blank?
I wish I could live in that ....
A. French old white house
B. Old white French house
C. French house old white
D. ...
0
votes
1answer
17 views
How to find out whether an adjective is for one or two words after it?
Scholars of religion have traced the cross-pollination of modern Hindu and Buddhist traditions with the language of “experience”. (Source)
Is modern an adjective for both Hindu and buddhist ...
0
votes
1answer
54 views
Invincible as an adjective for faith and attitude
Invincible means too powerful to be defeated and its another usage is invincible faith or attitude which cannot be changed. I am a bit confused with the usage in the second form. I have written a few ...
1
vote
1answer
274 views
Why “fiber optic[s]” and not “optic fiber”?
The preferred term to talk about those fast network cables (which are called "fibre optique", literally optic[al] fiber, in French) seems to be "fiber optic[s]".
Grammatically there are two ways I ...
4
votes
1answer
197 views
Adjectives order (old-fashioned)
I have to put the adjectives in the correct order to complete the sentences.
They only had _____ _____ (leather, old-fashioned) gloves in the sale, so I'll have to keep looking for those.
Adjective ...
2
votes
1answer
129 views
Is the adjective order “sunny, secret, green” correct?
I went to Sarah's house, and she showed me her sunny, secret,
green yard.
I'm quite sure green goes at the end. And doing a search on ngram I found more results with sunny, secret than secret, ...
2
votes
1answer
55 views
Difference between adjective+noun and noun+adjective
It was a speech calculated to appeal to the unions.
I encountered this sentense on the internet and got a question that
how the sentence will change its meaning or nuance if the noun and adjective ...
1
vote
1answer
48 views
“I want four more” or “I want more four”?
What's the natural order in the following sentence? Where should I put the word "more" in the following sentences?
My friend told me that we have already 4 oranges. I want to tell him that:
Okay,...
0
votes
1answer
351 views
One Noun, Two Adjectives, Connected with “and”
When two things having the same noun but different adjectives are connected with the word "and", should the noun appear twice, written seperately (as in example 1), or is it okay to write the noun ...
1
vote
1answer
44 views
“Anti-PF1 monoclonal antibody” vs. “Monoclonal anti-PF1 antibody”: order of adjectives
Which is better:
"Anti-PF1 monoclonal antibody"
"Monoclonal anti-PF1 antibody"?
I think it's the second: monoclonal anti-PF1 antibody, because "anti-PF1" expresses purpose.
I've read about ...
0
votes
1answer
56 views
How can I arrange these adjectives?
Is this sentence correct? (I need it as a title).
Muscular enhancement exercising aiding method.
I am not sure if one of the following sentences is the correct:
Aiding muscle exercising ...
0
votes
1answer
25 views
Order of bare webroot folder blog expression
I used such a phrase in my tutorial blog:
bare webroot folder blog. It is quite long but I don't know if the order of words is proper.
The sense of use this phrase is that somebody creates such a ...
0
votes
3answers
1k views
Order of adjectives for hair
I know the order of adjectives,but I don’t know which sentence is correct?
She has curly shoulder-length red hair.
She has shoulder-length curly red hair.
6
votes
8answers
4k views
He's “religious Christian” or “Christian religious”?
When having two continuous adjectives, how should I choose what will be first in a sentence? or it doesn't matter?
For example:
He's "religious Christian"
or
"He's Christian religious"?
I ...
1
vote
2answers
411 views
Placement of 'Immediately' in sentence
"That will be immediately taken care by user"
"That will immediately be taken care by user"
"That will be taken care of, immediately"
Which one is correct?
1
vote
1answer
106 views
“gas killing animal”… Is it a correct or is it a confusing structure?
I heard this expression (gas killing animal) on TV news, when they reported that Trump referred to Esad(syrian leader) like this in a tweet, because Esad was reported to have used a chemical gas and ...
0
votes
1answer
25 views
Can we use “a night's good sleep” instead of “a good night's sleep”
I know that " a good night's sleep" is correct to use, but I wonder that if we were to switch the position of "good", would it still be grammatically correct?
2
votes
1answer
45 views
“yellow useless part” or “useless yellow part”?
This may be a simple question but it has me confused. Is it "yellow useless part" or "useless yellow part" in the sentence below?
He threw the yellow useless part of cigarette.
By useless yellow ...
0
votes
1answer
864 views
“at the time of”, it should be at the end or at the beginning of the sentence
I'm not a native english speaker, so I have this doubt.
For example I have these two sentences:
At the time of taking the family picture she was next to her father
Or:
She was next to her ...
0
votes
1answer
20 views
Sentences with (noun+adjective+preposition) structure
I found these two sentences
He is a man suitable for any post.
**The subject is a matter worthy of note.
Why is there no relative pronoun and be verb between the noun and the adjective? What are the ...
4
votes
2answers
526 views
Asking for grammatical explanations for why “The book has two pages missing.” is right
In Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary,
there are example sentences as below for the adjective "missing".
(Sentence A) The book has two missing pages.
(Sentence B) The book has two pages ...
0
votes
1answer
32 views
How can I differentiate the words?
How can I differentiate the words a big chocolate-chipped pie ㅡ a pie that has big chocolate chips ㅡ and a big chocolate-chipped pie ㅡ a big pie that has chocolate chips.
1
vote
1answer
646 views
Adjective order : I saw an (anxious pale/pale anxious?) girl
I saw an anxious pale girl.
I saw a pale anxious girl.
I'm familiar with with OSASCOMP rule for order of adjectives used, which states the order of adjectives as
Opinion
Size
Age
Shape
Color
...
0
votes
2answers
508 views
“The quiet, damaged hot guy” — Order of adjectives
Say...
I know a guy named Frank.
He's hot.
And, he's quiet.
And, he's damaged.
Someone doesn't know Frank and asks me, and I say in reply:
Oh, he's Frank. The quiet, damaged hot ...
0
votes
1answer
420 views
“Conveniently situated close” vs “conveniently close situated”
The hotel is conveniently situated close to the beach.
Does situated describe close in this sentence?
And, could we exchange their places with one another, in this way: conveniently close situated?
3
votes
2answers
530 views
The order of adjective with a “pair of” something
I was wondering where put adjectives used to describe a pair of clothing items.
Which is correct:
A pair of black pants or a black pair of pants?
An expensive L-sized pair of pants or a pair ...
2
votes
2answers
58 views
Purple Flying Bee or Flying Purple Bee?
Which one is the right way to use as a document title, product name, or in any other "isolated" manner?
A bee that can fly and is purple. Not trying to imply it can
The second seems to imply ...
3
votes
1answer
98 views
so, Do we say “Good Affordable hotel” or “Affordable Good hotel”?
A native American teacher said, we have to say "Good Affordable hotel".
This page mentions the order of Adjectives in English
Opinion
Size
Shape
Age
Color
Nationality/...
1
vote
1answer
38 views
Which phrase about medical situations reads better and why?
When dealing with emergency medical situations
or
When dealing with medical emergency situations
