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Utxeee Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Word Order ?

Hi all,

I'm a english as a second language student and I find myself too often thinking about word order like this one:
1 - Proposal for a extra work;
2 - Extra work proposal;

This problem arises too many times because in my official language we would have said "time free" - tempo livre in Portuguese - instead "free time".
Is there any grammar rule or anything I can use to help me on ?

Best regards,
utxeee.
  

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Hi Most of the time, the adjective will come before the noun. Free time adj followed by noun Extra work proposal adj followed by noun unless you put in a preposition in which case you can turn it around and say as you have proposal for extra work, although that doesn't sound quite natural.

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  • Hi Most of the time, the adjective will come before the noun.
  • Free time adj followed by noun Extra work proposal adj followed by noun unless you put in a preposition in which case you can turn it around and say as you have proposal for extra work, although that doesn't sound quite natural.
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Hi

Most of the time,

the adjective will come before the noun.

Free time adj followed by noun
Extra work proposal adj followed by noun

unless you put in a preposition

in which case you can turn it around and say as you have

proposal for extra work, although that doesn't sound quite natural.
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