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Awesome, amazing anyone?

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Awesome, amazing, anyone? My thanks to all those readers who have told me of the places where I can buy not only clean rai (small mustard), but other spices too, with special thanks to Soonanda who has promised ready-made pickle, so I do not have to worry about even the rai . Yet shouldn't I be grateful to that five-letter word ‘clean’ which made all of this possible. I have also noticed how these words i.e., adjectives, help define our lives and all actions and emotions in it and advertising survives on them ( Pic above ). We were taught in school that an adjective is a word that describes a person or thing, for example  big ,  red  and  clever  in  a   big  house,  red  wine and  a   clever idea  idea  (Oxford ALD). I see that like almost everything else in the world, adjectives also follow an order in their existence.   English language has thousands of adjectives and we use them freely to give weight to wh...