Order of adverbs
My doubt is when i have 2 or more adverbs of manner together. I don't know the order.
Examples:
"It's the most expensive original exiting designs".
"The was was covered in old ugly black graffiti."
"It's an old boring social documentary".
"I had lunch in a small old cosy café"
Are they right??
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These words are actually all adjectives, not adverbs of manner. There is an order to adjectives, check out this website. It's for children, but it's really well-designed and I keep a print of their chart for my own students:
http://4thgradeela.weebly.com/ordering-adjectives.html
'adverbs of manner' describe how a VERB is completed. For example:
He ran quickly.
It rained hard.
I play soccer well.
When we write multiple adverbs of manner, we write them in a list with commas and the word 'and' joining two adverbs, like so:
It rained long and hard.
He plays baseball intelligently, skillfully, and cooperatively.
The order of adverbs can be found here:
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adverbs.htm
Just look farther down the page for a chart. Hope this helps!
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"It's the most expensive original exiting designs".--"It's the most expensive, yet original and exciting of designs."
"The was was covered in old ugly black graffiti." --"The wall was covered in old, ugly, black graffiti."
"It's an old boring social documentary". --"It's an old, boring social documentary."
"I had lunch in a small old cosy café" --"I had lunch in a small, old, cozy cafe."
While all of these make sense as they are if they were spoken, in written form they don't. Commas should be used to separate descriptive words that are next to each other like this.
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