Discussion Groups / ESL Teaching / October 2004

Usually in english we put the adjective before the noun, but sometimes
for effect, particularly in poetry, the adjective is placed after the
noun. "Paradise Lost" is the name of a very important English poem (12
books long - i.e. about 12,000 lines) written by the poet John Milton in
the 17th century.

tehre are also other structures where participles are used as adjectives
 where they come after teh noun and there are a number of standard
phrases deriving mainly from French where the adjective is after the
noun (e.g. the plural of "court martial2 is "courts martial").

Regards, Einde O'Callaghan