Every native English speaker knows this adjective order but likely never realised it. quantity opinion size age shape colour origin purpose
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I think the count vs. mass noun distinction is even more striking because it's so simple yet native speakers don't realize it exists.
Can you give me an example? Isn't it always obvious that something is a mass noun because it always uses the partitive article?
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Notwithstanding the fact a majority of people these days say "less" when snobs like me would say "fewer"...
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"Guacamole? Yuck, I hate that thing."
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Which is a type error. There's a countability mismatch.
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