adjective - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • derive: They can be categorized under the adjectives derived, duped and deliberate.
  • qualify: The qualifying adjective here is not clear in meaning.
  • modify: Is it an adverb, modifying the verbal adjective?
  • pick: To pick an adjective from the title, it's a curious book.
  • add: Copy these sentences, adding an adjective into each one to make the sentence complete.
  • choose: Adjectives: Please choose three adjectives to describe your church.

Converse of subject

  • modify: To use this sort of language implies that ' bishop ' is masculine unless it is modified by a feminine adjective.

Adjective modifier

  • possessive: To embrace his solicitor's address within the possessive adjective ' his ' involves a very brave step.
  • demonstrative: The others are on things like comparatives and demonstrative adjectives ( this, that, those ).
  • superlative: Comparative adjectives receive the tag JJR; Superlative adjectives receive JJT.
  • predicate: This apple is really big ). Adjectives used like this after the verb to be are known as predicate adjectives.
  • descriptive: They're not much different than his names and titles, but they're more descriptive adjectives or nouns that define him to us.
  • comparative: Comparative adjectives compare the degree of quality between two objects.

Modifies a noun

  • ending: We will discuss adjective endings in a later section.
  • phrase: Some adjective noun phrases are intersective - thus a " Red apple " is both red and an apple.
  • comparison: Figure 1. Percent of periphrastic and inflectional forms of adjective comparison in Late Middle, Early Modern and Modern English.
  • form: The MorphoFinder function helps you find words using English past participles, gerunds, and plural and adjective forms.
  • noun: The corresponding pattern in English might be ' noun noun ' or ' adjective noun ' .

Noun used with modifier

  • noun: Did not know what grammar was, or the difference between a noun adjective and a noun substantive.

Preposition: before

  • noun: But we do not normally use more than three adjectives before a noun.

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