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GrammaticaThe order of adjectivesTrascrizioneHello! My name is Catherine. Today we are going to talk about the order of adjectives. In English, the rule is that an adjective always goes before the noun: that’s easy. But students can get confused when they need to use more than one adjective to describe something. What order should they use? Let’s have a look!Firstly, when a phrase has more than one adjective, we separate each one with a comma and add “and” before the last adjective. For example: “Mary is quiet, calm, and hard-working.”Adjectives preceding nouns follow the following order: opinion, physical description, origin, material, purpose and noun. “Physical description” can refer to size, shape, age, temperature or colour.Here are some examples:“A tasty chocolate biscuit.”“A big brown wooden table.”“An expensive crystal wine glass.”In some cases the order of adjectives may vary, but adjectives of opinion always come first. Generally we do not use more than three adjectives to describe a noun. Two adjectives related to the same category are separated with a comma. Example: “An entertaining, inspiring film.”When we use two adjectives without a noun we use “and”. Example: “She is young and happy.”Now let’s talk about compound nouns. In English, a noun can often become an adjective when it is used to describe another noun. Example:“the key of the car” = “the car key”“the charger of the phone” = “the phone charger”That’s all for now! Bye! ................
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