Preposition: on

• wall: Picture hooks; sooner or later, you will want to hang something decorative on the wall.

Modifies a noun

• ironwork: Chancel roofline is lower than the nave and has decorative ironwork along the ridge.

• motif: On some of my work there are simple impressed decorative motifs.

• plasterwork: This intriguing example, with decorative plasterwork, is in King Street.

• border: They could also create a decorative border for a piece of work.

• coating: Six pairs of industrial and decorative coatings were subjected to oxygen plasma erosion and the results compared with natural exposure data.

• tiling: Hale School ( 1873 ) is unspoiled and handsome, boasting decorative tiling, carved bargeboards and polychromatic brickwork.

Modifying Another Word

• purely: But artists Brad Goldberg, Glen Unwin and myself have tried to go beyond a purely decorative use of stone.

• highly: A highly decorative ceiling centerpiece forms the ceiling to the lantern.

• merely: Are images used appropriately or are they merely decorative?

• very: This again is a county map, part of a very decorative atlas for the whole country.

• just: KISS; ) Ben Says: February 11th, 2006 at 1:55 pm Hauke, They're pretty much just decorative.

• only: But the visuals tho beautiful are not only decorative but syntactical.

Used with adjective complement

• look: Mind you, assume you're there mostly to make the tea and look decorative?

• include: Steam wallpaper stripper kit 230V For the fast and efficient removal of most types of wallpaper including decorative surfaces.

• seem: They seem decorative rather than theological, but there is a consecration cross beneath the window.

• remain: They remain decorative throughout the winter and together with the Lavender stop the box from looking like a sandpit.