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Sentence Examples Although the modifier in a noun phrase will often be an adjective, it doesn't have to be. Incidentally, it speaks of how immovably in residence the current prime minister is that he's been given his own eponymous adjective. Always use the mark as an adjective or as a proper name, and never use it generically. An attributive adjective modifies an ungrounded noun, thereby contributing to the specification of the type designated by the noun. Gallinaceous is an adjective describing birds of the order Gallinae, which includes common domestic fowls, pheasants, grouse, and quails. This was formed in the sixteenth century from the verb disable, but the corresponding adjective abled seems not to have been used at that time. Irenical has become a commonly-used adjective to design an idealist and pacific conception, such as the democratic peace theory. Here is a woman so deep in denial that pathological is the only serviceable adjective appropriate for such an irrational rant. Whether the adjective is a superlative or a comparative it requires more candidates than the two who have tied at the top. An adjective can depend on a noun, but can it also depend on another adjective? What I'm interested in is how the comparative adjective form wronger is pronounced. When an adjective modifies a noun, it is known as an attributive adjective. The declension of the adjective interrogative pronoun is like that of the relative one. Since miss is a noun in this phrase, it should be modified by an adjective, not an adverb. Or the other word could be an adjective modifying the noun, as in underage drinker. When an adjective follows a form of be, it is known as a predicative adjective. When a noun that is an open compound is preceded by an adjective, a hyphen is often added to prevent confusion. Teenage speech in Greenock includes the F-word as verb, adjective, adverb, or expletive in almost every sentence. Exercise Five then asks learners to identify statives and adjective participles in an example paragraph. Where hards form part of a name they often do so in combination with an adjective or a person's name. Show More Sentences It is just as much an adjective as guna, and Brahman is just as much a noun as jagat. In English, the definite article, the demonstrative and the qualification adjective are neutral as to gender variation. Only qualitative adjectives may be compared because only this type of adjective refers to qualities of objects which may vary in degrees. The adjective, of course, is adminicular, which I intend to use whenever maximum obfuscation is desired. The word's warm informality also makes it usable as what might be called an adverbial noun, modified by an adjective. In cooking, the adjective al dente describes pasta and rice that has been cooked so as to be firm but not hard. Their nomadic trait has led to the adjective gypsyish, for a person who may look like a gypsy or may be a wanderer. It was trashy, sleazy and every other adjective associated with dumbing down. By the 1820s, though, the adjective also conjured nonathletic activities such as gambling, drinking, whoring, fire fighting, or simply loafing. And when asked to underline the qualitative adjective in a sentence written out on the chalkboard, the star pupil homes in on the adverb. This time he decline to offer an adjective, said he would leave it to others to go through the tea leaves of the election. Its trademarks should never be used in the possessive or plural form, but should be introduced as a proper adjective followed by an appropriate descriptor. Instead of subjecting description to action, as do Homer and Virgil in their narrativizing descriptions, Keats defamiliarizes the adjective and lingers on it. He's saying that gingerly is, basically and traditionally, an adjective, and the adverbial use results as a haplology of the derived form gingerlyly. In his introduction to the book, the 6th word is an attributive adjective. In dictionaries, adjectives are always given in the masculine singular and this may not be the form in which you need the adjective and you may have to change it. For want of a better adjective, the prose is very expository. The fact that these impressions are expressed in the context of a description of sweet music gives the adjective a power of referring to the impression also. This strikes me as basically un-Barbelithian, to coin an adjective. Tradition is often used as an adjective, in contexts such as traditional music, traditional medicine, traditional values and others. Show More Sentences The adjective alkaline is commonly, and alkalescent less often, used in English as a synonym for basic, especially for bases soluble in water. Emotion may sometimes cause the speaker to adopt a marked sequence, and the rhematic adjective will then appear in sentence-initial position. Amy Reynaldo, the Crossword Fiend blogger, labels the richest alphabetical specimens as Scrabbly, an adjective I'm happy to spread. You use an adjective, it better be a sixty-four-dollar adjective. Wilberforce's smooth and slippery manner had led a contemporary to call him saponaceous, after the adjective from soap. Therefore, let's dive into the circumvolutions within the priest's brain, following the noun as it searches for the adjective. I notice the media yarn spinners haven't used that appropriate descriptive adjective when reporting on the histrionics of certain politicians. Most lawyers overuse past participial phrases when a simple prepositional phrase, single adjective, or possessive noun would do fine. Needed here is proper adjective Belgian, which can cross-dress as the noun identifying a native or inhabitant. This sentence contains two independent clauses, three adverb clauses, one noun clause, and one adjective clause. The object of a prepositional phrase is to function as an adjective or adverb. The word red is an adjective, in the dogmatical or positive degree of comparison. The right hon. Gentleman has much more claim to the adjective downy than I have, but he really cannot catch me with that one. Derivatively, the adjective continental refers to the social practices or fashion of continental Europe. For example, in the phrase the woman walked quickly the adverb quickly derived from the adjective quick describes the woman's way of walking. In English, both two sets of adjective endings were lost entirely in the late Middle English period. Niche tourism refers to the numerous specialty forms of tourism that have emerged over the years, each with its own adjective. When a number using vingt or cent is used as an ordinal numeral adjective, the words vingt or cent stay unchanged. In March 1979, Kent used the gothic adjective in his review of Magazine's second album, Secondhand Daylight. For this reason Modern French has only a single adjective declension, unlike most other Romance languages which have two or more. Show More Sentences Adverbs usually take the same form as the verb root or adjective especially after verbs. Normally the masculine form would be the most beneficial form of an adjective to learn first, given that the majority of nouns are masculine. However, the Gaelic gorm is also used as an adjective and verb, meaning green or greening and is often seen in connection with growing grass. The substantive verb is used when the predicate is an adjective, adverb, or prepositional phrase. Devastating is the adjective that springs to mind when you recall the power of Welsh international John Charles. The adjective planktonic is widely used in both the scientific and popular literature, and is a generally accepted term. However, from the standpoint of prescriptive grammar, the less commonly used planktic is more strictly the correct adjective. The demonym associated with Flanders is Fleming, while the corresponding adjective is Flemish. The adjective Amerikaans is most often used for things or people relating to the United States. Fasti is the plural of the Latin adjective fastus, most commonly used as a substantive. It was not until the late 16th century that the two words came to have the same basic meaning as a related adjective and noun. It was originally an adjective referring to those belonging to the Swedish tribe, who are called svear in Swedish. The English adjective Swiss is a loan from French Suisse, also in use since the 16th century. As an adjective, it is still used in describing the people, language, cuisine and culture of Guangzhou and the surrounding Liangguang region. Is used as both a noun and adjective describing the most prominent or highly touted product, brand, location, or service offered by a company. Main signs represent the major element of the block, and may be a noun, verb, adverb, adjective, or phonetic sign. An adjective phrase is a group of words that plays the role of an adjective in a sentence. It usually has a single adjective as its head, to which modifiers and complements may be added. An adjective phrase may include both modifiers before the adjective and a complement after it, as in very difficult to put away. Adjective phrases containing complements after the adjective cannot normally be used as attributive adjectives before a noun. Show More Sentences Unusual in other language families, declension in most Slavic languages also depends on whether the word is a noun or an adjective. The adjective graven was originally a past participle of the now obsolete verb grave. Often, the old strong participle may survive as an adjective long after it has been replaced with a weak form in verbal constructions. The English adjective molten is an old strong participle of melt, which is now a purely weak verb with the participle melted. Thus the reference or least marked form of an adjective might be the nominative masculine singular. Some prefer it to the adjective artificial, as this term may be perceived as pejorative. In other tenses, nas is replaced by na bu and as by a bu, both of which lenite the adjective if possible. Capital letters are used as the first letter of a sentence, a proper noun, or a proper adjective. The phrase is one of a few cases in the English language where the adjective is postpositive. Here's a descriptive adjective making its General Ramblings debut. Susan Butler, editor of Macquarie Dictionary, said that Word of the Year Committee selected the adjective because of its topicality and its visually graphic nature. Mark Twain once remarked that in writing the gap between the perfect adjective and the next-best adjective to be used is the difference between lightning and lightning bug. There is nothing comparable in the German strong adjective inflections. In some languages, particularly Slavic languages, a case may contain different groups of endings depending on whether the word is a noun or an adjective. Inflection is also present in adjective comparation and word derivation. Similarly, adjective phrases and adverb phrases function as if they were adjectives or adverbs, but with other types of phrases the terminology has different implications. The noun aerobics has recently given rise to the adjective aerobicized. There is not an equivalent to the English predicate adjective. In time, however, these endings fell out of use and the participle came to be seen no longer as an adjective but as part of the verb, as in Modern German. It is said by some that Bayonne is the birthplace of mayonnaise, supposedly a corruption of Bayonnaise, the French adjective describing the city's people and produce. Show More Sentences Mafic is an adjective describing a silicate mineral or igneous rock that is rich in magnesium and iron, and is thus a portmanteau of magnesium and ferric. For example, the adjective wee is almost exclusively used in parts of Scotland and Ireland, and occasionally Yorkshire, whereas little is predominant elsewhere. Definiteness is marked by two mutually exclusive articles, a preposed demonstrative article which occurs with nouns that are modified by an adjective or a postposed enclitic. In English, the adjective relating to Ionia is Ionic, not Ionian. Its name may derive from Capbreton near Bayonne, or more probably from the word Breton, the French adjective form of the proper noun Bretagne, the French historical region. The noun does not change but the adjective can be defined or undefined. Below the clausal level, for conjoins nothing at all, and although yet and so can join VPs and adjective phrases, it is quite rare for so to do so. The adjective Orwellian connotes an attitude and a policy of control by propaganda, surveillance, misinformation, denial of truth, and manipulation of the past. For example, in the phrases the slender boy, and many slender girls, the adjective slender does not change form to agree with either the number or gender of the noun. English National Opera is a title freighted with implications, and that first adjective promises not only a geographical reach, but a linguistic commitment too. The attributive adjective has no particular forefix, as the noun has. Examples from Classical Literature Make from each adjective and verb in this week's lesson an abstract noun by the addition of the proper suffix. A phrase or a clause used as an adjective modifier is called an adjective phrase or clause. In the fifth, the phrase how to reply is adverbial, modifying the adjective phrase at a loss. Berkeley, Gray, and Swift used hyps or the hyp for hypochondriasis, and the adjective was apparently common. Note that ill is both an adjective and an adverb and that illy is always incorrect. With exception of the above, the adjective is not inflected in the singular. The adjective is either prefixed to a noun or referred to it by a suffixed pronoun. The French lapin, which has supplanted the old word conin, is said to be formed from lepinus, an adjective of lepus. In Late Latin the neuter adjective capitale, capital, was used of property. The participle may also have the character of an adjective, the adverb either of an adjective or of a preposition. A limiting adjective is an adjective which merely shows which one or how many, without describing the noun it modifies. An appositive adjective is added to its noun to explain it, like a noun in apposition. Some intransitive verbs require a predicate noun or pronoun in the nominative case, or an adjective, to complete their meaning. Ordinarily Mrs. Warrender was spoken of as their mother, tout court, without any endearing adjective. I don't know anything about the Miltonic adjective, but I am sure about Kipling. But there was a sort of freshness and naivete and youthfulness about her which made him use that adjective. The adjective Bhima-sankasas as explained by Nilakantha is in this sense, quoting the celebrated simile of Valmiki. To set off an appositive noun or an appositive adjective, with its modifiers. A glow of inspiration that merits better than that of any living poet the high adjective, Vergilian. A noun clause may be used as an appositive, and so may be an adjective modifier. Show More Sentences From this place we have the adjective Enneus, and the Ennea Virgo of Sil., lib. An attributive adjective is closely attached to its noun and regularly precedes it. And we can also use the prepositional phrase to express relationship which we cannot express by a single adjective or adverb. With the exception of the last page, each word is preceded by a possessive adjective or an article indicating its gender. This transposition, common in earnest address, is due to close association of possessive adjective and noun. Mine is frequent before a vowel, especially when the possessive adjective is not emphatic. This insertion of the definite article between a possessive pronoun and an adjective is frequent. A predicative adjective is usually placed after the verb, and noun or pronoun, to which it relates. In common speech an adjective may stand by itself as a predicate, and so might be said to be categorematic. The adjective hystericus is an improper and inadequate definition of the circumstances under which clavus arises. It is sometimes intensive, as in bestir, and converts an adjective into a verb, as in bedim. Note whether the complement of the copulative verb is an adjective or a noun. Under adjective pronouns are included demonstrative pronouns and indefinite pronouns. A subordinate clause that modifies a substantive is called an adjective clause. The simple subject may be modified by an adjective, an adjective phrase, or an adjective clause. The grammatical change which accompanied this psychological movement was the transfer of the adjective into an abstract noun. But to an experimentalist the adjective does not seem overstrained. A phrase used as an adjective is called an adjective phrase. In some of these examples, the predicate adjective has a modifier. The modifiers of the subject are either adjectives or adjective phrases. Show More Sentences An adjective phrase may sometimes be compared by means of more and most. The form of the adverb, as well as of the adjective and the noun, is ill. The adjective assumes a negative form when it is preceeded by the adverb. An adjective or an adverbial clause may express place or time. An adjective may often be best rendered by an adverb or adverbial phrase. The use of this adjective as a substantive is said to be an Americanism. Wuthering' being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather. It is not the adjective, but the substantive, which is of real importance. I was raked in by that adjective fool with the unwashed face. An adjective phrase is a prepositional phrase used as an adjective. A phrase used to describe and modify a noun is an adjective phrase. He gloated over every abhorrent adjective in the description, and identified himself with every witness at the Inquest. A dependent clause in a complex sentence may also be an adjective clause. The subject millions is modified by the adjective phrase of modern men. Faction and its adjective, factious, have always an unfavorable sense. The genitive of material is rather the use of a noun as an adjective. I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective. Any appellation preceded by the adjective theoretical fitted them snugly. The word helder in the title has the ending of an adjective in the comparative degree but does not denote that. An adjective component may be primary or derived one and a nominal component may be primary, derived or less frequently a compound word. Show More Sentences As an adjective, it embraces the idea of supernatural as well as remedial. It is not a predicate adjective, but a partitive genitive after hwt. A possessive adjective usually precedes the word to which it relates. They should always be spelled out when preceded by a proper adjective. Most adjective phrases are prepositional, as in the examples. Steuben, whose sound of the adjective was that of a feeble flute. The gentle oath, the violent adjective, which are typical of our language and which he had cultivated before as a sign of manliness, he now elaborately eschewed. If someone constantly uses the F-word as an all-purpose adjective, it makes you wonder whether they're equally uncreative and slothful in everything they do. I do not know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which she used. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of adjective? Words that rhyme with adjective What is the past tense of adjective? What is the plural of adjective? What is the adverb for adjective? What is the adjective for adjective? What is the noun for adjective? Translations for adjective Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words adjectivally adjectival Adjara adjacent to adjacently adjacent area adjectives adjoin adjoined adjoining adjoins adjoint 9-letter Words Starting With a ad adj adje adjec adject adjecti adjectiv