Converse of object

• become: I say this, because David later went on to become a corporal in the Machine Gun Corps.

• make: Sedgewick has been made an unpaid lance corporal and I have lost him for good.

Adjective modifier

• former: They arrested former lance corporal Leslie Skinner who had been a training instructor at the camp.

• young: It was somewhere along this ridge that a young German corporal, Adolf Hitler earned an Iron Cross.

• German: It was somewhere along this ridge that a young German corporal, Adolf Hitler earned an Iron Cross.

• little: Can't help thinking the little corporal was quite right.

• old: Regards from a suddenly ancient feeling 42 year old ex corporal.

Modifies a noun

• punishment: He's all for bringing back corporal punishment in schools too.

• mortification: Is The Da Vinci Code's portayal of corporal mortification accurate?

• work: Sebastian's corporal works of mercy went hand in hand with the spiritual.

• oath: The plaintiff then offered to verify his claim by his corporal oath ( fn.

Modifying Another Word

• back: He's all for bringing back corporal punishment in schools too.

Noun used with modifier

• lance: They arrested former lance corporal Leslie Skinner who had been a training instructor at the camp.

• army: HEARTBROKEN Debi Allbutt joined soccer fans in a minute's silence for her army corporal husband Stephen at his local Stoke City ground.

• RAF: Adrian was just 25 when he died on February 6. A former RAF corporal from South Yorkshire, he first showed symptoms last March.

Possessives

• guard: In battle this sentry was reinforced by a corporal's guard with fixed bayonets, or by midshipmen with loaded pistols.

Preposition: in

• charge: The men remain seated, the corporal in charge rising in his place at the head of the table.

• RAF: He was a corporal in the RAF who worked in a hospital in Ely.

• army: Just five years earlier, Mussolini had been a corporal in the Italian Army fighting in World War One.