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From: "tineke sjenitzer" <sanders@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: the color purple and blue and red
If you say:" the blue color" blue is an adjective. Like:" the blue color of the sky made me quiet."
If you say "the color blue" blue is not an adjective but tells the name of the color just like we say the letter B. Since blue here is used as a noun we can also say "light blue".
So it is always the blue color of something and never the color blue of something.
Tineke
One of my students wrote "I like the blue color"...and I corrected this to "I like the color blue."
But why,I do not know...any exlanations for this? Why does the adjective follow the noun here??
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