How do you use "little" in this case? Hi Italki, I came across an entry and saw that a man wrote like this ''In the street number five, Mr.Temp and Mrs.Temp live with them little shy son. His name is Paul..." A woman took a correction '''In the street number five, Mr.Temp and Mrs.Temp live with their shy little son. His name is Paul". She also noted: ''Shy little son" - I don't think there is any hard-and-fast rule for this, but it's just convention to arrange the adjectives this way when you have "little" describing a person or animal. For example, you should also say "cute little boy" or "sweet little girl" or "mischievous little kitten". She said that we should also say ADJ-little-NOUN, why she used "shy little son'' ? I hope to hear from you soon. Thank you much ^^. Henry