> **Possible Duplicate:** > [Why do some adjectives follow the nouns they modify?](http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/42319/why-do-some-adjectives-follow-the-nouns-they-modify) > [Attributive and predicative position of an adjective](http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/59306/attributive-and-predicative-position-of-an-adjective) > [“A place nearby” but not “A place good”](http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/76247/a-place-nearby-but-not-a-place-good) <!-- End of automatically inserted text --> My natural language is French, and I am full fluent in Spanish. Since in Spanish we can use almost any adjectives to *precede* or *go after* a noun or pronoun. I would like to know if in English is the same case, or **do the adjectives always precedes a noun or pronoun**? Is there any exception? What are the grammatical rules involved?