Noun used with modifier

• tax: They seem ashamed of talking seriously about small government and big tax cuts â the issues for which she was renowned.

Object

• taxis: During the primaries, Bush had derided Reagan's hallmark pledge to cut taxes while hugely increasing the defense budget as " voodoo economics.

• cost: It must find ways to cut the costs of using public transport.

Adjective modifier

• short: Short cuts January February March Lecture outlines Monday 9th January: Chapter 1 of the Lecture Notes issued.

Noun used with modifier

• hair: Hair Salon Verify the effects of a training to allow hair cut by professional hair cutters.

• throat: I was in hospital for about ten days. During these few days one of the RAF drivers was brought in with his throat cut.

Preposition: into

• cube: Cut into small cubes and sprinkle onto soup just before serving.

• strip: Garments are generally stripped of added materials such as buttons and zips before being cut into strips to make the wiping cloths.

Modifies a noun

• diamond: Above it is a top plan of a rose cut diamond inside a ring, suggesting scrutiny of gems by magnification under the lens.

• flower: The garden was built in the eighteenth century to provide the owners of Panton Hall with fruit, vegetables and cut flowers.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• off: Part of the blood supply to the brain may then be cut off, which causes a stroke.

• down: The legislation does not require all hedges to be cut down to a height of two meters.

Followed by a transitive particle

• off: Did they want to cut off that route of escape?

Preposition: with

• scissors: How comes it is so straight later on, as if cut with scissors?

Preposition: for

• hay: Some of the drier meadows are cut for hay in late summer.