Adjectives Fore and Aft

1. One modern textbook devotes eight words to this important and puzzling subject: Descriptive adjectives follow their noun; others precede. Ramsey's treatment is much more detailed and accurate, but it contains a number of erroneous statements and refers to such arbitrary factors as length of adjective or adverb, individual preferences and of course, euphony; all qualified by those weasel words generally and usually. Later investigators have counted and sorted their thousands but have added little to

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