Modifies a noun

• scream: She sings her heart out with the subtlety of a primal scream.

• instinct: It is our primal instinct for basic physical survival.

• innocence: Matilda once more ties primal innocence to that anciently worshiped rebirth of the world in springtime: at this Easter of the Vision.

• urge: I had a deep, almost primal urge to corpse Kevin Richmond.

• fear: He'll find something primal, like some primal fear.

• scene: Freud traces everything back to the primal scene which he derives from the dream.

Modifying Another Word

• very: About being exposed to something very, very primal.

• almost: I had a deep, almost primal urge to corpse Kevin Richmond.

• so: Something so primal that words are not enough to describe it.

Used with adjective complement

• feel: It feels primal - it feels like that thing that somebody might dig up ten years later and think ' What is this?