27 Obvious But Generally Unknown Facts Everyone Should Know

27 Obvious But Generally Unknown Facts Everyone Should Know

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“There’s a thing called the Royal Order of Adjectives. This rule dictates the specific order in which adjectives should be arranged in a sentence, and native speakers follow it instinctively without being taught.”

The order is: quantity, opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin/material, and qualifier. For example: A lovely small old square brown French leather handbag. It sounds wrong if you deviate from this order, but many people aren’t consciously aware of it! When you say something like ‘A lovely small old square French leather brown handbag,’ other naive speakers will wonder what French leather is. “

—jared_number_two

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