“Little Green Man” or “Green Little Man”?: The Secret Rule Behind English Adjective Order!
ByTom Wilkinson
Aug 11, 2023
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By Tom Wilkinson
Host and founder of Thinking in English, Tom is committed to providing quality and interesting content to all English learners. Previously a research student at a top Japanese university and with a background in English teaching, political research, and Asian languages, Tom is now working fulltime on bettering Thinking in English!
I’ve already known about adjectives order. But during the conversation it’s difficult to think about this. I like English grammar as it’s part of language. One of the worst part of grammar is “report speech”. So Tom I would like to ask you to do bonus episode about “report speech”.
Hi Tom, I have done the adjective order quiz (2023), and I don’t understand why in number 8, the correct answer is red, small. It assumes that the order is size or length first, then colour. So, the correct answer could be amazing, white. (opinion, colour). Please can you explain this to me? Thank you.
Your right Ingrid! I think I must have clicked the wrong answer setting on the quiz 😭 it should have been the one above it (amazing white)
No problem. 👍