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 Adjectives order

Sometimes we use two or more adjectives together:
My brother lives in a nice new house.
There was a beautiful large round wooden table in the kitchen.
Adjectives like new/large/round/wooden are fact adjectives. They give us factual information about age, size, color, etc.
Adjectives like nice/beautiful are opinion adjectives. They tell us what somebod thinks of something or somebody.
Opinion adjectives usually go before fact adjectives.
  opinion fact  
 a nice long summer vacation
 an interesting young man
  delicious hot vegetable soup
 a beautiful large round wooden table
Sometimes we use two or more fact adgectives. Very often (but not always) we put fact adjectives in this order:
1
how big?

→

2
how old?

→

3
what color?

→

4
where from?

→

5
what is it made of?

→

Noun
a tall young man (1→3) a large wooden table (1→5)
big blue eyes (1→3) an old Russian song (2→4)
a small black plastic bag (1→3→5) an old white cotton shirt (2→3→5)
Adjectives of size and length (big/small/tall/short/long, etc.) usually go before adjectives of shape and width (round/fat/thin/slim/wide, etc.):
We do not often use the plural of person (persons). We normally use people (a plural word):
a large round table   a tall thin girl   a long narrow street
When there are two or more color adjectives, we use and:
      a black and white dress       a red, white, and green flag
but a long black dress (not a long and black dress)
Reference: Grammar in use Intermediate
© Cambridge University Press 1989-2009
 Grammar  Title: Adjectives order  Date Modified: Thu 20 Nov 2008, 2:29 PM
 Category: Grammar  

 Singular and Plural

Sometimes we use a plural noun for one thing that has two parts. For example:

pants (two legs)
also jeans/slacks/shorts/trousers		 pajamas (top and bottom) glasses binoculars scissors
These words are plural, so they take a plural verb:
My pants are too long. (not is too long)
You can also use a pair of + these words:
Those are nice jeans.   or  That's a nice pair of jeans. (not a nice jeans)
I need some new glasses.   or  I need a newpair of glasses.
Some nouns end in -ics but are not usually plural. For example:
economics    electronics   gymnastics   mathematcs   physics   politics
Gymnastics is my favorite sport.
There are some nouns that are usually uncountable in English but often countable in other languages. For example:
 advice bread furniture luggage progress waste
 baggage chaos information news scenery weather
 behavior damage luck permission traffic work
I'm going to buy some bread.   or  . . . a loaf of bread (not a bread)
What time is the news on television? (not are the news)
Some words ending in -s can be singular or plural. For example:
means a means of transportation many means of transportation
series a television series two television series
species a species of birds 200 species of birds
We always use a plural verb with police:
The police have arrested a friend of mine. (not The police has)
Do you think the police are well paid?
Note that a person in the police is a police officer / a policewoman / a policeman (not a police).
We do not often use the plural of person (persons). We normally use people (a plural word):
He is a nice person.   but  They are nice people.
Many people don't have enough to eat. (not doesn't have)
We think of a sum of money, a period of time, a distance, etc, as one thing. So we use a singular verb:
Twenty thousand dollars (=it) was stolen in the robbery. (not were stole)
Three years (=it) is a long time to be without a job. (not three years are)
Six miles is a long way to walk every day.
Reference: Grammar in use Intermediate
© Cambridge University Press 1989-2009
 Grammar  Title: Singular and Plural  Date Modified: Wed 19 Nov 2008, 9:9 PM
 Category: Grammar  

 Digital Clock

This is a digital clock; Not a flash one, but rather a clock using Java Script.

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 Java Script & Web Tools  Title: Digital Clock  Date Modified: Fri 14 Nov 2008, 2:25 PM
 Category: Java Script & Web Tools  

 Random Photo

This is a Random Picture Java Script containing 16 natural photos.
All the photos are in size: 169 x 127. The original size is 1024 x 768 when you click on each photo.
At first I designed it only to use in my own weblog. But now you can use it, too!

 Java Script & Web Tools  Title: Random Photo  Date Modified: Fri 14 Nov 2008, 2:21 PM
 Category: Java Script & Web Tools