Converse of object

• name: President Bush has named assistant attorney general and former appeals court judge Michael Chertoff as Ridge's successor, subject to Senate confirmation.

Adjective modifier

• assistant: President Bush has named assistant attorney general and former appeals court judge Michael Chertoff as Ridge's successor, subject to Senate confirmation.

Modifies a noun

• election: We have started to work toward victory in the next general election.

• public: ARP wardens were enlisted to help protect the general public during an air raid, for example, guiding people to the shelters.

• practitioner: In the event of a crisis arising, please contact your general practitioner.

• secretary: The employer is currently refusing to discuss clauses in agreements relating to job security, the deputy general secretary warned.

• principle: All the main parties now subscribe to this general principle.

• rule: The general rule is that literally whatever the idea, query, problem, or project the regional office can help.

Used with adjective complement

• become: And then the conversation became general for a short time and we went home.

Noun used with modifier

• attorney: US states elect their attorney generals, who have party affiliations.

• director: The BBC director general, Mark Thompson, is also talking to staff today about the wider implications of the Creative Future review.

• auditor: Jeremy Colman, the auditor general for Wales, is to carry out an investigation into the crisis-hit Welsh ambulance service.

• army: They started plotting to take over the country from the army generals.

Modifying Another Word

• sufficiently: Tho adopted without a vote, the resolution is attracts some reservations, but the language is sufficiently general not to attract direct opposition.

• fairly: Benefits of regulation for crime fighting are therefore not easy to assess and often expressed in a fairly general language.

• very: This was a very general survey, done from a wide variety of sources.

• quite: These are only instances of a quite general law.

• just: I assume that these were just general comments you were making and not directed at me.

• only: This article will consider only general anesthesia: regional and local techniques will be described in a subsequent article.

Preposition: in

• nature: These Croatian courses are more general in nature and are targeted at students with a whole range of different needs.