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Order of adjectives.That is, if someone were to say "the red, big ball," you know that it sounds wrong ("the big, red ball" sounds much more correct), but it's hard to explain why. When trying to teach non-English speakers what order to place adjectives, it seems very arbitrary. It turns out that there are rules that govern this. Basically, adjectives should be categorized and then arranged in the following order: Quantity, Opinion, Size, Age, Shape, Color, Origin, Material, Purpose.So, in the example above, "red" is a color adjective and "big" is a size adjective, so "big" must be placed before "red" in the example above. When trying to think about how to apply this rule, you have to remember a seemingly arbitrary order and then classify your adjectives before you speak, which is a slow process. This one generally has to be learned through repetition by hearing examples over and over until it becomes instinctive.See more at ELC Study Zone: Adjective OrderEDIT:Also, some recognition for some outstanding comments: comment by Oliver Brennan (and Raquel Rita's reply) and comment by Visakan Veerasamy

Automated good morning text messages to an ex while we were still together (No, that’s not why we are exes — you’re thinking it. I know :) ).Wrote a simple Python script that created a romantic text using a predetermined set of adjectives and phrases - randomizing adjectives and phrases to give me quite a variety of sweet nothings to say in the morning. I then had it randomize a time between 8am and 9am to send it.Sweetest boyfriend ever.

Oh, there are all kinds of fun and unusual words that I think everyone should know! Here are just a few of them:aeolist: (noun) a person who pretends to have inspiration or spiritual insight they do not really havealysm: (noun) a feeling of restlessness or boredom resulting from being sickapophasis: (noun) a sneaky rhetorical trick in which someone says they will not mention something, but, in the process of doing so, not only mentions it, but draws specific attention to itapotropaic: (adjective) intended to ward against evil supernatural forcesbyzantine: (adjective) characterized by overly complex, dysfunctional bureaucracycallipygian: (adjective) having beautiful buttockschthonic: (adjective) pertaining to the underworld or, in an extended sense, any place undergroundcoprolalia: (noun) the uncontrolled use of abusive, obscene, or scatological language commonly associated with Tourette’s syndromecoprophagy: (noun) the act of eating fecescrapulence: (noun) a feeling of sickness one experiences after excessive eating or drinking, especially after consuming large quantities of alcoholdefenestrate: (verb) to throw something or someone out a windowdionysian: (adjective) having a party-like atmosphere or a disposition towards partying; wild, irrational, and undisciplineddunandunate: (verb) to overuse a word that one has recently learnedepicure: (noun) a person with extremely fine taste in foodeudaimonia: (noun) the state of happiness and contentment resulting from the practice of rationality and moral virtueeuneirophrenia: (noun) the feeling of contentment one experiences upon waking up from a pleasant dreamgargalesthesia: (noun) the sensation of being tickledhypermnesic: (adjective) having a very good memoryithyphallic: (adjective) having an erect phalluskafkaesque: (adjective) characterized by qualities that are surreal, disorienting, and/or ominouslaconic: (adjective) using as few words as possiblelucubrate: (verb) to stay up late at night working or studying, especially for a prolonged length of timemugwump: (noun) a person who acts as a neutral adjudicator in a dispute, often carrying the connotation that the person is not really neutral but rather merely feigning neutrality for personal or political gainnikhedonia: (noun) the feeling of joy one experiences upon discovering that one is about to win somethingpetrichor: (noun) the distinctive smell accompanying the first rainfall after long dry spellphiloxenia: (noun) the eagerness to show hospitality to strangersprolix: (noun) a person who has a habit of speaking or writing at tedious lengthsapphic: (adjective) relating to lesbianismscaramanzia: (noun) a superstitionschadenfreude: (noun) the feeling of pleasure derived from observing the suffering or misfortune of otherssolipsistic: (adjective) acting as though oneself is the only thing that existssophomoric: (adjective) overconfidently displaying knowledge while simultaneously revealing gaps in such knowledge as well as immaturityskeuomorph: (noun) an object which bears non-functional features of an object designed for a different purposesybaritic: (adjective) characterized by a disposition towards excessive laziness and luxurythespian: (noun) an actor or another person associated with the theatertmesis: (noun) the act of breaking up a word by inserting another word in the middle of ittrumpian: (adjective) characterized by blustering, narcissistic behavior and a complete and utter disregard for the truthultracrepidarian: (noun) a person who gives advice on a subject they are completely unqualified to give advice onxanthodontous: (adjective) having yellow teethxanthippe: (noun) an ill-tempered woman