Placement of adjectives and adverbs

As a native English speaker, I didn’t realize there was an order in which adjectives and adverbs are used to describe things. But it seems there’s a ‘Royal Order of Adjectives’, as nicely described by Jeanne Purdue on her blog: http://oilpatchwriting.wordpress.com/2010/12/22/the-royal-order-of-adjectives/, and also a ‘Royal Order of Adverbs’: http://oilpatchwriting.wordpress.com/2010/12/22/the-royal-order-of-adverbs/.

I can see this being very useful for those horrendous part names for equipment that I sometimes have to deal with.

Thanks Jeanne!

[Link last checked December 2010]