Pre-nominal Adjectives.

Syntax is the arrangement in the accommodation of the words, taking into account its importance when we are learning a second language specially the English one we must know and pay real attention about this phenomenon: (pre-nominal adjectives) as an important topic to evaluate considering that not all of people who are studying English are so clear about the position that adjectives have between the determiner and the noun, it could be useful to know if you don`t have any idea about this because usually we use no more than three or four adjectives in order to describe someone or something as much. So the arrangement of words in utterances and sentences are very important, the same happen with  adjectives because each one on them have an order to describe nouns or pronouns, specifically the pre-nominal adjectives, being these types of adjectives answered by the questions, -What kind?, -Which ones? or –How many? According to this, each adjective gives something more about the noun. We often use adjectives in our writing and even in our oral speech, for that reason it is important to know or to reinforce the position that they have in order to modify words. Sometimes we can observe the influence that other languages have in the translation of a text to another, for example: from Spanish to English and how this same influence can permit that people get confused putting the different adjectives changing the position affecting syntax. As an example here are the types of adjectives and the adjective´s position.

·         Types of Adjectives:

-Numeric: six, one hundred and one etc.

-Quantitative: more, all, some, half, more than enough etc.

-Qualitative: color, size, smell etc.

-Possessive: my, his, their, your etc.

-Interrogative: which, whose, what etc.

-Demonstrative: this, that, those, these etc.

·         Adjective´s Position:

When we group adjectives together there is a general (sometimes flexible) rule for the position of each type of adjective, these are:

Position:

1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th
Opinion	Size	Age	Shape	Color	Material	Origin
Nice	Small	Old	Square	Black	Plastic	British
Ugly	Big	New	Circular	Blue	Cotton	American

To be studying a foreign language has its complexity, and we can say that is a challenge too because it is difficult to organize ideas in the right way especially if it is from Spanish to English, affecting syntax. As an advanced student of English language, it is important to get more information about how we place the pre-nominal adjectives in the most appropriate position. So remember their order: Determiner- 1^st Opinion- 2^nd Size- 3^rd Age- 4^th Shape- 5^th Color- 6^th Origin- Noun, maybe you see this phenomenon as the easier one because actually we do not pay attention to this in our writings or in our speeches but it is really important. So now that you know how Adjectives should be placed, try to do it well!

Some examples and definitions have been taken from: http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/adjectiveorder,html#sthash.EAVnfcug/dpuf