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Unconsciously, native English speakers say adjectives preceding nouns in a specific order: opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, and purpose.
It's why saying "old green metal chairs" sounds normal,
but "metal green old chairs" sounds odd.- but not when typing words into search engines - in that case anything goes loltrooperbill
- size first, no?Fax_Benson
- ^
'Big old green metal chairs'Continuity - shut your big ugly face.sarahfailin
- Have to admit the example provided is around half the research I put into this.MrT