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Moneer Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Which sentence is more correct ?

A beautiful white house or a white beautiful house ?
  

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A beautiful white house reads more smoothly. Here's a link that explains the standard order of adjectives. htm

  • A beautiful white house reads more smoothly.
  • Here's a link that explains the standard order of adjectives.
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A beautiful white house reads more smoothly.

Here's a link that explains the standard order of adjectives.

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/adjord.htm
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MoneerA beautiful white house or a white beautiful house ?
The whiteness of the house is much more closely related to it than its beauty, so you put 'white' closer to 'house'.

A beautiful white house. An ugly white house.

CJ

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