Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Adjectives and Adverbs

Unless you are using case with nouns there is very little to say about adjectives. The big decision is whether to put your adjectives mostly in front of the noun as in English and Finnish or mostly behind the noun as in French and Spanish.

Adverbs are perhaps even less exciting. English has fairly free adverb placement. You could make your adverb placement more restrictive if you wish.

All of the adjectives and adverbs in my language end in -o. Orginally I intended adjectives and adverbs to be indistinguishable as they often are in German. But as time went on there were some times when having some difference helped in my situation. So now adjectives are stressed on the initial syllable and adverbs are stressed on the -o suffix which is reflected by a spelling convention.

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