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the otherday I found an advertisement.
It says "Rooms available weekly and monthly"
I thought "weekly and monthly available rooms " was correct.

are sometimes adjectives after noun?
If yes, is there another word like this?

I think adjectives are always in front of Noun.???

2007-01-07 10:59:27 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Languages

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it was a short cut....that they meant was "rooms are available on weekly and monthly basis". they do short cuts because you pay for every line when you advertise. this way, they can get as much information in per line as possible.

in english, you put adjectives before nouns. other languages such as spanish, french, italian etc, put the noun first before the adjectives. examples are: big house (english); casa grande (spanish)

2007-01-07 11:05:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

"Weekly" and "monthly" are adverbs here. Normally you'd put adjectives before the noun in English (that is, attributive adjectives of the type "the blue sky", not predicative adjectives of the type "the sky is blue"). There are, however, a small number of conventional expressions that have the adjective behind the noun, either because they are of French origin (Princess Anne is "the Princess Royal") or out of stylistic reasons ("since time immemorial").

2007-01-07 20:14:00 · answer #2 · answered by Sterz 6 · 1 0

This is a peculiarity of the publicistic style. You will often see in newspaper headings/article titles as well as in advertisements omission of certain words or substitution of one tense form by another.
The most common case with the definite article 'the' and the linking verb 'to be', like in your example, 'Rooms are available weekly and monthly'.
Other examples would be 'President to Visit Local Community' (meaning 'The President will visit the local community'), or 'Conflict Finally Resolved' (meaning 'The conflict has finally been resolved')

2007-01-07 21:58:13 · answer #3 · answered by hekki 2 · 0 0

In English, there is no "always." Every single rule has an exception, and you seem to have found one. :)

Sometimes it is correct to put the adjective after the noun, or adverb after the verb. Like getting your paycheck weekly. They also do that a lot in poetry.

2007-01-07 19:03:20 · answer #4 · answered by Emmy 6 · 1 1

weekly and monthly are adverbs,, they are describing their availability

most words that end in ly are adverbs, but if you had weekly rates, that would be an exeption, because it is describing the word rates, but as you see in that sentence, the adjective comes first, but i wouldnt go as far as saying that this will always be the case

2007-01-07 19:03:54 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 2 0

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