The new trade agreement should facilitate … ?

Analyze the question: This tests adjective order (the order of modifiers before a noun). We need to arrange "more," "rapid," and "economic" correctly before "growth."

Concept: English adjectives follow a natural order. The relevant rules here:

1. Quantifiers/determiners (more, many, few) come first.
2. Descriptive (opinion/quality/speed) adjectives (rapid, quick, slow) come next.
3. Classifying adjectives (economic, political, medical) come last, right next to the noun, because they define the type of noun.

So the pattern is: quantifier → descriptive adjective → classifying adjective → noun.

Step-by-step solution:

• "more" is a quantifier, so it goes first.
• "rapid" describes the growth, so it goes in the middle.
• "economic" classifies the kind of growth, so it sits next to the noun.
• Noun: "growth."

This gives: more rapid economic growth.

Checking the options:

• A. more economic rapid growth: the classifying adjective is placed before the descriptive one. Wrong.
• B. economic more rapid growth: "economic" is placed before the quantifier. Wrong.
• C. rapid economic more growth: "more" is misplaced next to the noun. Wrong.
• D. more rapid economic growth: the correct order. ✔

The sentence becomes: The new trade agreement should facilitate more rapid economic growth.

Exam tip: The adjective that tells you the type of thing (economic, medical, political, financial) always sits closest to the noun. Say the phrase aloud. "Rapid economic growth" sounds natural, while "economic rapid growth" does not.