For example, French (SVO) uses prepositions "(dans la voiture, à gauche)," and places adjectives after "(une voiture spacieuse)." However, a small class of adjectives generally go before their heads "(une grande voiture)". On the other hand, in English (also SVO) adjectives almost always go before nouns "(a big car)," and adverbs can go either way, but initially is more common "(greatly improved)." (English has a very small number of adjectives that go after the heads, such as "", which kept its position when borrowed from French.) Russian places numerals after nouns to express approximation (шесть домов="six houses", домов шесть="circa six houses").