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#2 (permalink) Tue Apr 24, 2007 8:52 am [Vietnamese English teacher] or [English Vietnamese teacher] |
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Hi,
There is a very general 'rule' or if you like a preferred order whereby the adjectives go from the general to the particular. For example you would say: A big red wooden door. In your phrase as the teacher is teaching English, you would say: A Vietnamese English teacher. In the same way, An English Vietnamese teacher would mean that the teacher is teaching Vietnamese.
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#3 (permalink) Wed Apr 25, 2007 6:43 am [Vietnamese English teacher] or [English Vietnamese teacher] |
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| Vietnamese English teacher is right for what you are trying to say -- except that it's not that clear, as you have found out. What's wrong with "a Vietnamese teacher who teaches English"? :) |
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Diverhank I'm here quite often ;-)

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#4 (permalink) Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:12 am [Vietnamese English teacher] or [English Vietnamese teacher] |
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| No, I dont think I agree with you on that, Alan. If I were him, I would say `a vietnamese teacher of English` instead of `a vietnamese english teacher` since `english teacher` in the latter should make a confusion that he is a teacher who is english, whose profession will probably not be teaching English. |
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Anna.ha I'm here quite often ;-)
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| Usage of did and didn't? | "People is" or "People are" |