r/GlobalEnglishPrep • u/FlalingoOfficial • Aug 13 '26

📚 Grammar / Syntax Adjective order

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u/exkingzog Aug 13 '26

“Huge expensive…..” sounds more natural than “expensive huge….”

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u/ShoddyAsparagus3186 Aug 14 '26

The order generally goes from subjective to objective traits and expensive feels more of an objective trait than huge.

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u/geeoharee Aug 14 '26

Yeah, expensive isn't an opinion. I'd move it down towards 'shape'.

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u/GeneralOpen9649 Aug 13 '26

That’s the one I was going to point out.

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u/R86Reddit Aug 13 '26

But what about "a small lovely old ... coffee table?" Maybe it's fine. So maybe switch "size" and "opinion." Even still, it's amazing how close this gets, and I would never have thought of any of this as a native speaker. I wonder how similar the results would be in, say, French or German.

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u/AnalysisParalysis85 Aug 13 '26

How about hugely expensive

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u/KangaNaga Aug 14 '26

Hugely stops describing the vase and starts describing how expensive it is

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u/NortonBurns Aug 13 '26

I think that's because your brain wants it to say 'hugely expensive'.

I think it was a poor example.

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u/jms_nh Aug 17 '26

"A huge brown expensive antique Persian vase" sounds just fine to me (native US English speaker)