Re: word order of adjectives

I had no idea that components of compound words could be compared to
free-standing adjectives. I thought that no adjective could be laid
inbetween "medical" and "student" or "garden" and "chairs" for the same
reason you cannot say "gar-green-den" :-)

Estel Telcontar <estel_telcontar@...> wrote
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From "The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language", by David
Crystal, P. 223:
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ADJECTIVE ZONES:

Examples such as the following suggest that there are four main 'zones'
within the premodifying section of a noun phrase, here labelled I, II,
III, and IV. I've got the same (I) big (II) red (III) garden (IV) chairs as
you.
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