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Re: word order of adjectives

From:Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 27, 2003, 20:29
--- Ian Spackman <ianspackman@...>
wrote:

transfer medical student
* medical transfer student

Problem is, you've only switched one compound -
medical student - for another compound - transfer
student. To each of those, you've appended a
modifier - medical or transfer. You haven't
actually stuck something in the middle of a
compound.

Padraic.


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