Jigneshbharati Posted 7 years ago
Grammar
A heart-shaped
I am reading "The Owl who was afraid of the Dark" with my son.
"Plop was a baby barn owl, and he lived with his mummy and daddy at the top of a very tall tree in a field.
He had a beautiful heart-shaped ruff.
Is "heart-shaped" a compound adjective made up of noun plus past participle?
Why can't we switch the adjective order of "a beautiful heart-shaped ruff"?
"Plop was a baby barn owl, and he lived with his mummy and daddy at the top of a very tall tree in a field.
He had a beautiful heart-shaped ruff.
Is "heart-shaped" a compound adjective made up of noun plus past participle?
Why can't we switch the adjective order of "a beautiful heart-shaped ruff"?
Top answer
Jigneshbharati Is "heart-shaped" a compound adjective made up of noun plus past participle? Yes. Jigneshbharati Why can't we switch the adjective order of "a beautiful heart-shaped ruff"?
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JigneshbharatiIs "heart-shaped" a compound adjective made up of noun plus past participle?
Yes.
JigneshbharatiWhy can't we switch the adjective order of "a beautiful heart-shaped ruff"?
It will sound wrong if we do that because in English we (almost always) put the most closely associated adjective next to the noun
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