The Stacking / Conjoining of Adjectives
Are the following sentences synonymous? Thank you.
a) We went for a picnic on Sunday. It was a rare sunny day.
b) We went for a picnic on Sunday. It was a rare and sunny day.
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a) We went for a picnic on Sunday. It was a rare sunny day. b) We went for a picnic on Sunday.
- a) We went for a picnic on Sunday.
- It was a rare sunny day.
- b) We went for a picnic on Sunday.
- It was a rare and sunny day.
- No: in a) there is stacking of adjectives.
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a) We went for a picnic on Sunday. It was a rare sunny day.
b) We went for a picnic on Sunday. It was a rare and sunny day.
No: in a) there is stacking of adjectives. There are two layers of modification: "day" is modified by "sunny" to form the nominal "sunny day", and this in turn is modified by "rare" to give the interpretation: "day whose
0anonymousAre the following sentences synonymous?
No. The first means that few days were sunny, and this was one of them. The second is faulty. The two adjectives don't go together, and that produces a comical effect. It's like saying "He was a highly skilled and Belgian man."
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