Igor
SASHCOM - a way of arranging adjectives

I have noticed, that in some tests, they ask people to put a group of adjectives before a noun into a correct order.  It is not hard a challenge if we have combinations like "a yummy red apple" or "beautiful green garden", but the thing becomes more complicated if there appear for example "round", "black", "drinking", "enormous", glass", "old", "wonderful",and let's say, "NewUritanian", and you have to put them all before a noun "mug"?

In order to brush up the secret, I had to look over the main rule and have come up with the idea I would like to share.

The main rule of a chain is opinion ->description -> classification.

But the description consists of a minor chain size -> age -> shape -> color -> origin -> material .

To memorise it I used the abbreviation SASHCOM.

So, now it will be easy to everyone to put all that stuff together into the correct order:


A wonderful -> enormous -> old -> round -> black -> NewUritanian -> glass -> drinking MUG.  Try to say it in one breath! :)

Of course, it is an absurd to use all this endless list in one place, but now we know the secret.

19 июня 2017 г., 16:34
Комментариев · 1
This adjective arrangement is really a difficult task for the learners.  Thank you, Igor for sharing an easy way to memorise the order of the adjectives. SASHCOM nailed it indeed:) 
19 июня 2017 г.