Help me describe these boots by placing the adjectives in the correct order?
By urbandekay
@urbandekay (18278)
6 responses
@betsyraeduke (2669)
• United States
14 Mar 08
Slim, large, fine old leather, red, Spanish riding boots.
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@betsyraeduke (2669)
• United States
14 Mar 08
Large, fine old leather, slim, red Spanish riding boots.
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@Darkwing (21583)
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14 Mar 08
Fine, Large, Old, Red, Spanish Leather, Slim, Riding Boots.
I don't know if that makes sense, but I assumed they were made from Old Red Spanish Leather. lol. However, on reading it, it sounds odd!
Brightest Blessings.
Brightest Blessings.@urbandekay (18278)
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14 Mar 08
No, if they were made of red Spanish leather then the sentence would not require a comma between those adjectives.
all the best urban
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@urbandekay (18278)
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14 Mar 08
Thought you'd get it, being a native
all the best urban
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@pumpkinjam (8876)
• United Kingdom
14 Mar 08
Slim, large, old, fine red leather Spanish riding boots.

@pumpkinjam (8876)
• United Kingdom
14 Mar 08
Hey, it's late and I'm thinking about doing housework. I might give it another go tomorrow!
@urbandekay (18278)
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14 Mar 08
Good but not good enough, and you a native as well! Drat, one of these colonial types is going to get it
all the best urban
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@foxyfire33 (10005)
• United States
14 Mar 08
Fine, large, old, red leather, slim, Spanish riding boots.
Geez, that was harder than it looked!
Out of curiousity what is this for anyway?
@urbandekay (18278)
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14 Mar 08
But would still be wrong with the commas. What it is for may become clear in next discussion
all the best urban
@cynicalandoutspoken (4725)
• United States
14 Mar 08
Large old spanish red fine leather slim riding boots.
If you go all Sigmund Freud with my answer I think I'm going to ask for your hand in marriage. lol
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@urbandekay (18278)
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14 Mar 08
Hmmmm, you have an attraction to unnecessary psychological conclusions drawn from grammatical errors?
all the best urban
@urbandekay (18278)
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14 Mar 08
No, but your clearly obsessed with large, I wonder why that is?
all the best urban
@cynicalandoutspoken (4725)
• United States
14 Mar 08
Large, old, fine red spanish leather, slim riding boots. This will be my final attempt. I have a couch I need to lay on.

@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
15 Mar 08
How about Fine,large,slim, old, red leather, Spanish riding boots?
@urbandekay (18278)
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15 Mar 08
Well done, hope you weren't copying!
all the best urban
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@urbandekay (18278)
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15 Mar 08
Interesting; I never learned this as a convention but I have found that if I place them in the order that 'sounds right' to me, they are indeed in that order. I guess we learn the rule by practice.
all the best urban
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
15 Mar 08
Nope. lol But it was a brain teaser for me in a way. I deal in language, but it's been eons since I had to really think about the proper order of so many adjectives.
Grammer is not my fine point. I tend to write exactly how I hear it in my head, and that often breaks all the rules of good grammer, but not necessarily good writing, if you know what I mean. Thanks for the exercise. I enjoyed it.









