English Grammar: Position of Adjectives.
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Lets begin the topic POSITION OF ADJECTIVES now.
a.
Attributive
position of adjectives: An adjective used attributively is placed immediately
before the noun.
Examples: See the underlined portions in
the below sentences.
i.
The chief
guest has arrived.
ii.
My best
friend is very emotional person.
In the above
sentences the adjectives chief, best and emotional have been used attributively
and they have been placed immediately before the nouns guest, friend and person
respectively.
b.
In
poetry the adjectives are frequently used after noun.
Example:
See the underlined portion in the following sentence.
i.
Children dear,
Do not fear.
c. When several adjectives are attached to one
noun, they are sometimes placed after the noun for emphasis or settlement.
Example: See the underlined portion in the following sentence.
i.
There
lived a big lion, brave and fierce.
ii.
The
noble king, fearless and brave, resolved to dye for his subjects.
d.
When
there is an adjective phrase to qualify a noun, there is surely an adjective
inside the phrase to master the whole phrase, in such cases the adjective is
placed just after the noun.
Example:
See the underlined portion in the following sentence.
i.
He was a boy, poor but laborious.
ii.
A soldier, braver than anybody else in the troop, said we must go ahead.
e.
There
are some unlawful phrases where adjectives come after the noun and there are no
certain rules behind it.
Example:
See the underlined portion in the following sentence.
Lord paramount, Notary public, God
almighty, Time international etc.
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