Noun phrases: order

Before the head of a noun phrase, determiners come first, then adjectives, then nouns acting as modifiers. The spoken stress is normally on the head.

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Noun phrases

• like hell
• like-hell
• like-herding-cats
• like herding cats
• like it or lump it
• like-it-or-lump-it
• like it's going out of fashion
• like-it-s-going-out-of-fashion
• like-lemmings
• like lemmings
• likelier
• likeliest
• like lightning
• like-lightning
• likelihood
• likelihood function
• likelihood-function
• likelihoods
• likely
• like mad
• like-mad
• like-minded
• likeness
• likenesses
• like nobody's business