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Adjective order
[Voiceover] So, grammarians, if you're a native English speaker, the phrase French old white house might seem a little weird to you, if you're not a native English speaker it might not, and this is something that I didn't really know about before I started preparing to teach this course, is that there is a specific order that adjectives go in in English.발음듣기
This is something that I think we just pick up as English speakers but if you didn't grow up speaking English it gets a little tricky sometimes.발음듣기
So the question is, in order to make this seem right, what order do you put these adjectives in?발음듣기
Determiner, opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, purpose, or for short dosa scomp.발음듣기
I just want you to imagine sitting down to a delicious South Indian meal and scomping on some dosas.발음듣기
Opinion, this is when you're describing something there are certain descriptors that not everyone would agree with.발음듣기
So if you're looking at a piece of black metal, everyone would be able to agree that it is black.발음듣기
But if you think it's cool looking or ugly looking, you know, everything that anyone could conceivably disagree about, that's an opinion.발음듣기
This is where we would use what's called a participle or a gerundive to determine what the thing is for.발음듣기
So if we were talking about a lawnmower that you ride around on, that's called a riding mower.발음듣기
So we're looking at, so this thing is cool, big, old, square, black, Texan, leather, riding mower, but frankly in most normal English sentences you'll probably never going to use more than three adjectives to describe a given thing.발음듣기
Now sometimes, you might find yourself using more than one adjective that fits into the same category.발음듣기
And you'll notice I put a comma there, because when you use two adjectives from the same category, so two opinions, exciting and unparalleled, you wanna separate them with a comma, but generally if you're just scooting down the dosa scomp, old white French house, you don't need to separate these non-coordinate adjectives from each other.발음듣기
And we'll get more into commas in punctuation section, but for now, all you need to remember is dosa scomp.발음듣기
And if you've never had a dosa, I strongly urge you to look up recipes online or go to a South Indian restaurant and make and eat this delicious food.발음듣기
This is just the way that we arrived at this order, it's just basically through random chance of convention.발음듣기
For example, the way we're using adjectives here, we're always putting them to the left of whatever they modify, the exciting, unparalleled green dragon.발음듣기
So when you're trying to just throw a bunch of adjectives together on the left side of the noun, this is the order.발음듣기
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