Modifying Another Word

• virtually: David Cane The animal you are looking for is virtually extinct.

• but: A most useful word, now, alas, all but extinct.

• practically: The plant, which had first been recorded in Holyrood Park in the early 1600s was practically extinct.

• nearly: The Bosnian church, essentially Catholic in doctrine, was nearly extinct by the 15th century.

• almost: The otter was almost extinct in Norfolk by the early 1980s.

• locally: Dr. Valerie Keeble, chief executive of Mammals Trust UK said: " Dormice have become locally extinct over large areas of the country.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• pronounce: On his arrival shortly afterward he pronounced life extinct.

Modifies a noun

• volcano: El Valle Situated in the crater of an extinct volcano, El Valle is famous for its Sunday Indian craft market.

• crater: Its unique harbor was once an inland lake, in an extinct volcanic crater.

• reptile: These dead remains on a French beach were thought to be those of a long extinct marine reptile.

• dinosaur: Wilson grew up a lover of live insects; Gould of extinct dinosaurs.

• mammal: Also included is a section on extinct mammals of Ireland.

• cone: There is an extinct lava cone with a walkway to the summit.

Used with adjective complement

• presume: The Desert Rat Kangaroo is missing, presumed extinct.

• become: The old schools must have become extinct in the poverty of the breaking up of the Empire.

• declare: Sixty years later, due to over hunting by humans, they were declared extinct.

• render: It means among other things, to render EXTINCT.

• go: How many species have gone extinct in the last 100 years?

• believe: From the 1970s onward, the chough was believed extinct in its own country.

Preposition: in

• county: However there are still no recent records for seventeen of these species, most of which must be considered extinct in the county.