Image source, Twitter The order of adjectives, according to the book's author Mark Forsyth, has to be: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose. "If you mess with that word order in ...

Adjectives in English must always be used in a very precise order. And even though none of us has officially learned this rule, placeholderwe somehow all know to follow it, and that things seem ...

You’re not wrong (though not entirely right, because descriptivist linguistics): An intuitive code governs the way English speakers order adjectives. The rules come so naturally to us that we ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Royal Order of Adjectives dictates that adjectives must appear in a certain order: opinion-size-shape-age-color-origin-material-purpose. It's why My Greek Fat ...

That summer, she had a student who was obsessed with the order of adjectives. A soldier in the South Vietnamese army, he had been taken prisoner when Saigon fell. He wanted to know why the order ...

In order to test this intuition linguists have analysed large corpora of electronic data, to see how frequently pairs of adjectives like “big red” are preferred to “red big”. The results ...

Mark Forsyth, in his brilliant book The Elements of Eloquence, says that adjectives in English have to be in the order “opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose”. He illustrates ...