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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

The order of adjectives

1- The amazing six and a half - week course.
2- The amazing quarter past six full movie.I mean by quarter past six the movie that finishes quarter past six. I want to use it as an adjective.
Are these sentences correct?
  

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You can't describe a movie with an adjective derived from the time the movie finishes. How would the listener know that "quarter past six" is the end time rather than the start time? And certainly the end time is not an inherent part of the movie.

— Khoff

  • You can't describe a movie with an adjective derived from the time the movie finishes.
  • How would the listener know that "quarter past six" is the end time rather than the start time?
  • And certainly the end time is not an inherent part of the movie.
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You can't describe a movie with an adjective derived from the time the movie finishes. How would the listener know that
"quarter past six" is the end time rather than the start time? And certainly the end time is not an inherent part of the movie.
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We might say "Do you want to go to the 6:15 show or the 8:20 show?"
But we wouldn't combine it with other adjectives.
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BarbaraPAWe might say "Do you want to go to the 6:15 show or the 8:20 show?"
And we would be referring to the start times, not the end times!
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Absolutely yes we would!
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