In scientific language we should find more adjectives in the after-position than in the fore-position; in a novel, a play, or in everyday speech, adjectives in the fore-position abound. Scientific language is less emotional than is everyday speech.

The bar's age limit was 21, so we could not get in.

At their extremity, is still a spring, which was, no doubt, of use to the army generally, and might, in conjunction with the shelteredness of the position, afford a strong motive for such erections in this particular spot.

The program below, taken from Example 8.7, is recoded with several errors that are flaggable by the assembler. The octal listing is given with error flags.