Re: Adjective page

En réponse à Dan Jones <feuchard@...>:

> OK, from one of the exercises on the page David Bell pointed us to, we
> have an answer "an handsome slim canadian snowboarder". As an English
> speaker, I think "a slim handsome canadian snowboarder" sounds a lot
> more natural. Any opinions??
>
Maybe it's a problem of euphonia. "a handsome slim Canadian snowboarder" is
correct if we consideronly the meaning of the adjectives, but I can understand
that there is a natural tendency to avoid sequences like long adjective-short
adjective-long adjective for euphonic reasons. It's true that the sequence
short adjective-long adjective-long adjective would be much nicer to the ear.

Christophe.

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