Converse of object

• help: Click here if you can help Horsetail From: Melvyn G, UK How can I get rid of Mares Tail?

• use: Modern research has validated long-standing folk medicine practices of using horsetail to mend connective tissue and bone.

• eliminate: In grass, regular mowing over a period of years may eliminate horsetail.

Adjective modifier

• small: The small horsetail that looks like a soft baby pine tree is preferred over the rigid, leafless kind.

Modifies a noun

• herb: Some such diuretics are juniper berries and horsetail herb.

• tea: Brush, floss, and try a daily cup of horsetail tea.

Noun used with modifier

• water: Numbers slowly declined, but we finished with a quick look round Skaters Meadow, which had abundant water horsetail and spike rush.

• field: Maximum vegetative growth of field horsetail occurs in July.

• marsh: Nearby, between reeds and bog bean, was growing the marsh horsetail Equisetum palustre that can grow up to 60 cm tall.

• wood: Foxglove and tormentil in flower, with lady fern, hard fern and wood horsetail making a good display in the damper areas.