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What do you mean by attributes?

Attribute refers to the modifier (or restrictive element) in front of a noun or pronoun.

Attributes in English are used to modify, limit and explain the nature and characteristics of nouns or pronouns. Mainly adjectives, in addition to nouns, pronouns, numerals, prepositional phrases, infinitives, participles, attributive clauses and so on.

For example, in a beautiful girl, the girl is decorated. A stands for quantity, limiting the quantity to one, not multiple; Beauty modifies girls, indicating that girls are beautiful, but it is also limited to beauty, not including ugliness.

Word order of attributive

Preposition attributes usually follow the following order:

1, quantity (one, two ...), including ordinal number, even comparative degree and superlative degree;

2. beauty (ugliness);

3. Big, small, tall, short, fat and thin;

4. Age (10 years old);

5. Color (red, blue);

6. Source (China and America);

7. type.

For example: an ugly fat girl; ; A red Italian coat.