Converse of object

• entitle: Matthew Bourne's interpretation will be showing at Sadlers Wells entitled Nutcracker!

• perform: Paraphernalia Puppets performed The Nutcracker on December 8 th.

• see: He's now coming to see the Nutcracker with me in December!

• give: On Christmas Eve Clara is overjoyed when she is given a nutcracker in the shape of a wooden soldier.

• use: Twist the claws from its body, then use a nutcracker to open each claw.

• dance: This year, predictably, both the Royal Ballet and the English National Ballet are dancing the Nutcracker.

Adjective modifier

• new: The new Nutcracker is designed by Sue Blane and very crisp it all is.

• Eurasian: Eurasian Nutcracker, Nucifraga caryocatactes - 2, A Li Shan.

Modifies a noun

• doll: Clara and Fritz's godfather, Herr Drosselmeyer, arrives and gives a Nutcracker doll to Clara.

• production: As you may know by now, ENB have commissioned me to choreograph their next Nutcracker production.

• prince: Clara frees the nutcracker prince from his spell and helps him to defeat the mice that have overrun his kingdom.