One of the examples isn't actually right.
"As size comes before colour, green great dragons can't exist".
If there is a variety of dragon called "great dragons", which can come in different colours, you would say "green great dragons".
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Cassie Werber
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That quote comes from a book called The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase. Adjectives, writes the author, professional stickler Mark Forsyth, “absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that order in the slightest you’ll sound like a maniac.”
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