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Persian Learner Posted 10 years ago
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Adjective after noun?

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Murdock, for example, in "Outline of World Cultures", produced what many have called the ultimate laundry list of cultural things by naming 900-old categories of human behavior.

Murdock, for example, in "Outline of World Cultures", produced what many have called the ultimate laundry list of things that are cultural by naming 900-old categories of human behavior.

Murdock, for example, in "Outline of World Cultures", produced what many have called the ultimate laundry list of things cultural by naming 900-old categories of human behavior.

Are all correct without any difference in meaning?
  

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All are fine with me. Adjectival attributes follow the noun in some English expressions such as court martial. This word order derives from the French language, which was the language of the upper social classes in England after the Battle of Hastings (1066 AD) for about 300 years.

  • All are fine with me.
  • Adjectival attributes follow the noun in some English expressions such as court martial.
  • This word order derives from the French language, which was the language of the upper social classes in England after the Battle of Hastings (1066 AD) for about 300 years.
  • The French word order is based on Latin, in which word order is quite free owing to a variety of inflections, which inhibit misunderstanding.
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All are fine with me. Adjectival attributes follow the noun in some English expressions such as court martial. This word order derives from the French language, which was the language of the upper social classes in England after the Battle of Hastings (1066 AD) for about 300 years.

The French word order is based on Latin, in which word order is quite free owing to a variety of in

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