Possessives

• song: When the rose is gone and the garden faded you will no longer hear the nightingale's song.

• voice: A rich, full strain of the divinest melody streamed forth from a remote part of the hall the nightingale's voice!

Converse of object

• hear: The best time to hear nightingales at Paxton is at dawn or dusk, in scrub along the Haul Road or the Heronry Trail.

• include: Along this road nature lovers will enjoy the sounds and sights of numerous birds in the many large trees, including nightingales.

• sing: There were also plenty of whinchats and a singing nightingale despite it being 16.00.

• force: Recent research in Germany has shown that urban noise can force nightingales to sing so loudly that they break European sound pollution regulations!

• see: We also saw another nightingale, but, again, could not decide on the species.

• do: No more does the ardent nightingale carol its joyous songs, and the sweet and holy melodies of the immortal dove are hushed.

Adjective modifier

• real: When it was wound up, it sounded like the real nightingale.

• artificial: One evening, however, in the middle of a song, the artificial nightingale broke down.

• little: Even Death was so infatuated by the song that he said: " Go on singing, little nightingale, go on singing!

• ardent: No more does the ardent nightingale carol its joyous songs, and the sweet and holy melodies of the immortal dove are hushed.

• brown: In this beautiful story, an Emperor is amazed when he finds true joy in the simple song of a small brown nightingale.

Modifies a noun

• floor: They are called nightingale floors because they sing like birds as people walk across them.

• singing: It was warm and very pleasant; nightingales singing, swallows swooping, spring flowers everywhere and even a wild tortoise!

• song: During spring and early summer nightingale song drifts over the heaths.

• ward: Nightingale wards are being removed and today we have had the wonderful announcement that Clatterbridge will be part of the linear accelerator program.

• population: Experts have also noted a significant decline in owl and nightingale populations as well.

• territory: At Paxton Pits nature reserve, six nightingale territories in scrub were selected for invertebrate sampling.

Noun used with modifier

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