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Mp Posted 22 years ago
Grammar

What sounds better

The wonderful, wide world

The wonderful wide world
  

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I would have said the latter one, personally. There's a kind of "natural order" for adjectives, and "wonderful" would normally come before "wide". (Maybe someone else can give a link to the "Royal Order of Adjectives" - I don't know it off hand).

— Rommie

  • I would have said the latter one, personally.
  • There's a kind of "natural order" for adjectives, and "wonderful" would normally come before "wide".
  • (Maybe someone else can give a link to the "Royal Order of Adjectives" - I don't know it off hand).
  • The point is, if they're in the natural order, you shouldn't need a comma.
  • If it were the other way round ("The wide, wonderful world"), then you'd need the comma.
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I would have said the latter one, personally.

There's a kind of "natural order" for adjectives, and "wonderful" would normally come before "wide". (Maybe someone else can give a link to the "Royal Order of Adjectives" - I don't know it off hand).

The point is, if they're in the natural order, you shouldn't need a comma. If it were the other way round ("The wide, wonderful worl
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I think it goes;
1 Opinion
2 Dimension
3 Age
4 Shape
5 Color
6 Origin
7 Material
ODASCOM for short.
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1. Wonderfully, intense, dark, evening.

Would this sound good to you?
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You don't need the commas, but apart from that yes. (The comma between "wonderfully" and "intense" definitely shouldn't be there, by the way - at least, not if you want "wonderfully" to modify "intense").

Rommie
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