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> Native speakers know not to include it here, and I don't know why. Native speakers would phrase it as "critical Danish infrastructure." Commas are only used
by civilitty 3y ago
> Native speakers know not to include it here, and I don't know why.
Native speakers would phrase it as "critical Danish infrastructure." Commas are only used to separate coordinate adjectives that are equal in importance. Here, "Danish" gives us an immutable property of the noun which is more important that "critical" which is a statement of quality.
"Broken critical Danish infrastructure" is also grammatically valid since it's "(condition) (quality) (national association) (noun)"
- plugin-baby 3y ago> Native speakers would phrase it as "critical Danish infrastructure." As a native speaker, I’m not convinced by this.
- brookst 3y agoAs a native, speaker I am.
- dkjaudyeqooe 3y agoI agree with it, how would you phrase it?
- plugin-baby 3y agoSeems fine as Danish critical infrastructure. Similarly French blue cheese, Prussian light infantry, American civil war.
- xcdzvyn 3y agoThere's an inherent order to adjectives in English[0], so the sentence is objectively formed as "critical Danish infrastructure". I do understand why someone would (knowing those rules) write "Danish critical infrastructure", possibly for emphasis, but it's not - and take this word very loosely - correct. [0] https://www.gingersoftware.com/content/grammar-rules/adjectives/order-of-adjectives https://www.gingersoftware.com/content/grammar-rules/adjecti...
- plugin-baby 3y agoI’m not sure quite how to read these rules - isn’t “critical” a “purpose or qualifier”? Which would mean the original formulation follows the rules.
- civilitty 3y agoNo, a "purpose or qualifier" is (usually) the defining characteristic of a noun. For example, power infrastructure vs water infrastructure. If you said "power Danish infrastructure" or "water Danish infrastructure", power/water don't make sense as adjectives. Sometimes "critical" is a qualifier like "critical condition" but in this case, it's a quality.
- thomasahle 3y agoI don't think "critical is a statement of quality". In the security industry "critical infrastructure" is basically a noun in its own right. I wouldn't be surprised if they started spelling it with a dash.