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Lionel Mandrake

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3. A counterexample to the adjective rule:

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Original post)

Fri May 26, 2017, 07:42 PM

May 2017

If "lovely little ... knife" is an example of "opinion-size- ... noun", then "great big beautiful blonde" has the order of opinion and size reversed, but it sounds okay to me.

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What native English speakers instinctively know. [View all] PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2016 OP

Interesting! liberalla Sep 2016 #1

Very cool! CaliforniaPeggy Sep 2016 #2

A counterexample to the adjective rule: Lionel Mandrake May 2017 #3

I would argue that in PoindexterOglethorpe May 2017 #4