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If I am writing a sentence where both a noun and an adjective are used as modifiers, shall I write first the adjective, or the noun?

"It'sIt's a nice C code snippet. "

 
(?) "It'sIt's a C nice code snippet."

Is the same "rule" valid for the following sentence?

"Reserved SQL keywords are written in uppercase."

" 
SQL reserved keywords are written in uppercase."

If I am writing a sentence where both a noun and an adjective are used as modifiers, shall I write first the adjective, or the noun?

"It's a nice C code snippet. "

(?) "It's a C nice code snippet."

Is the same "rule" valid for the following sentence?

"Reserved SQL keywords are written in uppercase."

"SQL reserved keywords are written in uppercase."

If I am writing a sentence where both a noun and an adjective are used as modifiers, shall I write first the adjective, or the noun?

It's a nice C code snippet. 
(?) It's a C nice code snippet.

Is the same "rule" valid for the following sentence?

Reserved SQL keywords are written in uppercase. 
SQL reserved keywords are written in uppercase.

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If I am writing a sentence where both a noun and an adjective are used as modifiers, shall I write first the adjective, or the noun?

It's"It's a nice Cnice C code snippet.
  "

(?) It's"It's a C niceC nice code snippet."

Is the same "rule" valid for the following sentence?

Reserved SQL"Reserved SQL keywords are written in uppercase.
SQL reserved"

"SQL reserved keywords are written in uppercase."

If I am writing a sentence where both a noun and an adjective are used as modifiers, shall I write first the adjective, or the noun?

It's a nice C code snippet.
 (?) It's a C nice code snippet.

Is the same "rule" valid for the following sentence?

Reserved SQL keywords are written in uppercase.
SQL reserved keywords are written in uppercase.

If I am writing a sentence where both a noun and an adjective are used as modifiers, shall I write first the adjective, or the noun?

"It's a nice C code snippet. "

(?) "It's a C nice code snippet."

Is the same "rule" valid for the following sentence?

"Reserved SQL keywords are written in uppercase."

"SQL reserved keywords are written in uppercase."

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Adjectives and nouns: which modifier should be written first?

If I am writing a sentence where both a noun and an adjective are used as modifiers, shall I write first the adjective, or the noun?

It's a nice C code snippet.
(?) It's a C nice code snippet.

Is the same "rule" valid for the following sentence?

Reserved SQL keywords are written in uppercase.
SQL reserved keywords are written in uppercase.