Modifying Another Word

• now: The Taliban airforce had effectively been disabled and their air defense systems were now inoperable.

• virtually: Eventually, we had to write to the Government and tell them that the scheme was virtually inoperable.

• totally: How could that have happened if the thrusters were totally inoperable?

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• render: Electricity supplies bombed out of action for military purposes will render sanitation systems inoperable, causing more serious health risks to the general population.

• make: This type of virus could potentially make the computers inoperable.

Modifies a noun

• tumor: Judy asks Hazel why she left the halfway house: Hazel tells her she has an inoperable brain tumor.

• carcinoma: This strategy will be used in patients with advanced, inoperable, intra-abdominal carcinoma with ascites.

• cancer: Their daughter died on Halloween night, killed by inoperable brain cancer at the age of twelve.

• adenocarcinoma: At present, less than 10 % of persons with inoperable adenocarcinoma of the lung survive more than 5 years following diagnosis.

• patient: Survival for inoperable patients is also longer than for those with common pancreatic cancer.

• equipment: Maintenance Sergeant The maintenance sergeant supervises prompt recovery of damaged or inoperable equipment on the battlefield.

Used with adjective complement

• render: These fumes are caused by doors being left open often after being rendered inoperable by trucks driving into them.

• become: At the end of the 30 day trial period the software will become inoperable.

• consider: Tumors that are located in the areas of the brain that control breathing, intellect or physical movement would possibly be considered inoperable.