Consider another example. Children are taught in school that articles are a type of adjective. Is this, however, a legitimate claim? The answer, unfortunately, is no. The reason is that adjectives and articles behave differently; that is, they have different properties. First, adjectives can be made comparative and superlative (rall-taller-tallest), whereas articles can’t (the-theer-theest, a-aer-aest). Second, if both an adjective and an article modify a noun, then the article must precede the adjective (the tall man, all the man). Finally, a noun can be modified by more than one adjective, but not by more than one article (a short, fat man, a the fat man).