I would like to get the answer for this question from an English native speaker.
In my mother language, which is Aramaic, we always use the adjectives and the attributive nouns after the noun being modified. That is the contrary to the English language which pre-adjective and attributive nouns come before the modified noun.
The process in my head goes like as if I am counting down 5,4,3...etc instead of counting up. As a result it become harder but i digress.
Let’s move to my main point. My question regards the attributive noun. The drawing below illustrates the mechanism used to modified the noun by the attributive ones.
I want just to know which one is right. I know that adjectives have a specific order, what about the “attributive nouns”, do they:
- 1) modify the noun it follows ? Or
- 2) modify the first noun?