Word of Mouth (BBC audio)

English Word Order

Michael Rosen talks to linguist Dr. Laura Bailey about word order. We learn for adjectives in English it's opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose then noun. Hence; lovely, little, old, rectangular, green, French, silver, whittling knife. She says even babies get word order right and do so by their 2nd word.

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