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Jigneshbharati Posted 7 years ago
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A heart-shaped
I am reading "The Owl who was afraid of the Dark" with my son.
"Plop was a baby barn owl, and he lived with his mummy and daddy at the top of a very tall tree in a field.
He had a beautiful heart-shaped ruff.
Is "heart-shaped" a compound adjective made up of noun plus past participle?
Why can't we switch the adjective order of "a beautiful heart-shaped ruff"?
"Plop was a baby barn owl, and he lived with his mummy and daddy at the top of a very tall tree in a field.
He had a beautiful heart-shaped ruff.
Is "heart-shaped" a compound adjective made up of noun plus past participle?
Why can't we switch the adjective order of "a beautiful heart-shaped ruff"?
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Jigneshbharati Is "heart-shaped" a compound adjective made up of noun plus past participle? Yes. Jigneshbharati Why can't we switch the adjective order of "a beautiful heart-shaped ruff"?
- Jigneshbharati Is "heart-shaped" a compound adjective made up of noun plus past participle?
- Yes.
- Jigneshbharati Why can't we switch the adjective order of "a beautiful heart-shaped ruff"?
- It will sound wrong if we do that because in English we (almost always) put the most closely associated adjective next to the noun and any less closely associated adjectives farther from the noun.
- "heart-shaped" is something inherent about the ruff.
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JigneshbharatiIs "heart-shaped" a compound adjective made up of noun plus past participle?
Yes.
JigneshbharatiWhy can't we switch the adjective order of "a beautiful heart-shaped ruff"?
It will sound wrong if we do that because in English we (almost always) put the most closely associated adjective next to the noun
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