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adjectives before nouns Adjectives are normally placed before nouns and this is known as the modifier or attributive position. Thus, we would normally say:

  • Getting all the way round Brazil in five working days proved an impossible mission.
  • He asked me a number of difficult questions.
  • I was sitting next to the open window which I couldn’t close.

Mission impossible, if I remember correctly, was originally the name of an American television series which was later made into a film which you have probably seen. There is, in fact, no reason for putting the adjective after the noun here other than for effect. It sounds original and therefore your attention is drawn to it.

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