You know it’s proper to say “silly old fool” and wrong to say “old silly fool”, but you might never have thought about why – or if you did you probably imagined it was just some time-honoured convention you picked up by rote. The paragraph concerned the order of adjectives – if you’re using more than one adjective before a noun, they are subject to a certain hierarchy. Last week it happened again, when a paragraph from a book called The Elements of Eloquence went viral on social media. Things native English speakers know, but don't know we know: /Ex0Ui9oBSL- Matthew Anderson September 3, 2016
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