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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
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Challenging example of order of adjectives
What would be the correct form to order the adjectives in the following sentence?
"The sword lied by his bare, dirty, blood-stained feet."
Should commas be placed between them or only when they belong to the same category of adjectives?
Could blood-stained be considered a color adjective?
What about bare and dirty? Where do they fit?
Page with the order of adjectives (there's a chart in the middle): http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adjectives.htm
"The sword lied by his bare, dirty, blood-stained feet."
Should commas be placed between them or only when they belong to the same category of adjectives?
Could blood-stained be considered a color adjective?
What about bare and dirty? Where do they fit?
Page with the order of adjectives (there's a chart in the middle): http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adjectives.htm
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Anonymous What would be the correct form to order for the adjectives in the following sentence? " "bare" seems to be unnecessary. If his feet weren't bare, you wouldn't know that they are dirty and blood-stained.
- Anonymous What would be the correct form to order for the adjectives in the following sentence?
- " "bare" seems to be unnecessary.
- If his feet weren't bare, you wouldn't know that they are dirty and blood-stained.
- I would omit "bare", but if others want to keep "bare", they can tell us where they would put it.
- ' I don't think there is any chart you can follow for this, and others may order the two adjectives differently than you and I did.
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AnonymousWhat would be the correctformtoorder for the adjectives in the following sentence?
"The sword lay by his bare, dirty, blood-stained feet."
"bare" seems to be unnecessary. If his feet weren't bare, you wouldn't know that they are dirty and blood-stained. I would omit "bare", but if others want to keep "bare", they can tel
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