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koolthing78 12.04.2007 04:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by racehorse
interesting. firstly you'd have to think about what type of adjective "Bloody" is (probably opinion), and then the same with "Motherfucking" (it's purpose). then you put it into order. here is the conventional order of adjectives:

1. size (big)
2. age (old)
3. opinion (ugly)
4. colour (red),
5. material (leather)
6. origin (american)
7. purpose (riding).


so it's probably going to be "Oh my bloody motherfucking God" just like you'd say "big, old, ugly, red brick house" :)
order of adjectives is one of the hardest things to learn in a foreign language i think.




Thanks, Racehorse! I'm always struggling with sentence structure, I didn't even know such an official order existed! So I copied and pasted your response into a word document, to refer back to at any time I need...


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