I was practising a grammar pattern, so in my personal example I wrote:

```

    多いオーストラリア人
    
```

However, a native speaker corrected me with:

```

    多くのオーストラリア人
    
```

I understand that in relative clauses that adjectives go before the noun (e.g.
おいしい牛乳). How come they corrected me like this? How does this work? Or did I
learn relative clauses wrong?
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grammar adjectives relative-clauses i-adjectives
Relative clauses: 多い人 vs 多くの人
多い is just a special case word, where, on its own modifying a noun, it takes
the form 多くの. However, it can take the 多い form attributively as part of a
longer relative clause such as オーストラリア人の多い場所 'a place where there are many
Australians'.
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