Object

• shortness: Breathing problems, coughing, shortness of breath and wheezing improve.

• bout: Walter smoked a pipe for a good many years, but following a coughing bout put the pipe away for good.

Converse of object

• vaccinate: Paddy is neutered, micro-chipped, kennel cough vaccinated, wormed and inoculated.

• irritate: A child with mild asthma may have an irritating cough each night, but is often fine during the day.

• sneeze: What about if you sneeze, cough or laugh?

• soothe: The product is used to soothe tickly, dry coughs, and helps to unblock a stuffy nose.

Adjective modifier

• whooping: Anyone who has been vaccinated or has suffered from whooping cough will have a degree of immunity to the disease.

• micro-chipped: Dogs are spayed/castrated, micro-chipped, kennel cough vaccinated, wormed and inoculated before leaving us.

• chesty: A productive, or chesty cough makes you feel like you want to bring up mucus or phlegm by coughing.

• spayed/castrated: Dogs are spayed/castrated, micro-chipped, kennel cough vaccinated, wormed and inoculated before leaving us.

• spayed/neutered: Unless there are mitigating circumstances, all dogs are spayed/neutered, micro-chipped, kennel cough vaccinated, wormed and inoculated before leaving us.

• tickly: Snoopy is still suffering from a tickly cough for which she is being treated with a course of antibiotics.

Modifies a noun

• suppressant: Cough suppressants containing codeine should be avoided in the third trimester.

• syrup: Carry a few bottles of " Benadryl " cough syrup containing the choicest liquor.

• mixture: Various cough mixtures on the market do the trick for different people.

• vaccine: Every dog that comes here must have the kennel cough vaccine 14 days prior to entry.

• medicine: Fred said his father used to make cough medicine.

Noun used with modifier

• kennel: How can I stop my dog getting kennel cough?

Possessives

• smoker: Heart of gold, somewhere in there, along with the purple hair and the smoker's cough.

Particle object: up_obj

• phlegm: Tuesday - Angela She has a nasty problem with coughing up phlegm!