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    Adjectives usually precede the nouns they modify. When multiple adjectives modify a single noun, they are separated by commas except for the last two if they indicate color, which are separated by "and." Adjectives can also follow nouns for emphasis or in certain fixed phrases.

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    Adjectives usually precede the nouns they modify. When multiple adjectives modify a single noun, they are separated by commas except for the last two if they indicate color, which are separated by "and." Adjectives can also follow nouns for emphasis or in certain fixed phrases.

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    Adjectives usually precede the nouns they modify. When multiple adjectives modify a single noun, they are separated by commas except for the last two if they indicate color, which are separated by "and." Adjectives can also follow nouns for emphasis or in certain fixed phrases.

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    Position of adjectives

    Adjectives usually go before the nouns they modify.

    She is a nice girl. (Here the adjective nice modifies the noun girl and goes before it.)
    He is an intelligent boy.
    That was a clever idea.
    When two or more adjectives come before a noun, they are usually separated by commas.

    A large, round table


    A short, fair, pretty girl
    Note that we do not put a comma after the last adjective in the series.

    When the last two are adjectives of color, they are usually separated by and.

    A black and white cow (NOT black white cow)


    Red and blue socks
    When two or more adjectives come in the predicative position, we use and between the last
    two.

    It was hot and sultry.


    The boy was handsome, smart and polite.
    The clouds looked white and fluffy.
    Sometimes we put an adjective after the noun for the sake of emphasis.

    There lived an old man strong and wicked. (More emphatic than ‘There lived a strong and
    wicked old man.’)
    In phrases such as those given below, the adjective always comes after the noun.

    Time-immemorial
    Heir-apparent
    God Almighty
    President elect
    In lines of poetry, too, the adjective is sometimes put after the noun.

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    Position of adjectives

    O men with sisters dear! (Instead of ‘O men with dear sisters’)

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