Modifying Another Word

• perfectly: Just perfectly ripe lawson squash blossoms are some very.

• nearly: In other fields autumn sown barley is already nearly ripe.

• yet: The question is not yet ripe for settlement in Scotland.

• fully: Fully ripe they taste like a rich apricot jelly.

• absolutely: Anyone who has ever seen Siegfried and Roy perform will realize that their act is absolutely ripe for parody.

• quite: Their number is not yet full, and the world is not yet quite ripe for its doom.

Preposition: for

• picking: The Teesside club offered a fee of £ 5million not long ago but they now feel that Derby County are ripe for the picking.

• rediscovery: Now, with the release of a terrific retrospective, she is ripe for rediscovery.

• redevelopment: There are plenty of brown field sites ripe for redevelopment.

• taking: Thanks to Roman politics, greed and tyrrany Britain was now ripe for the taking.

• parody: Anyone who has ever seen Siegfried and Roy perform will realize that their act is absolutely ripe for parody.

• exploitation: The coastal areas chosen for the farms are usually mangrove swamps, seen as useless areas ripe for exploitation.

Modifies a noun

• tannin: High quality fruit with good acidity and soft ripe tannins.

• avocado: Sandwiches Avocado Mash the flesh of a ripe avocado with a fork.

• mango: Despite using four ripe mangos, I can't taste them.

• tomato: Real, ripe tomatoes are easily damaged in shipping.

• banana: Banana Jam Cut up 2 cups of ripe bananas, 1 cup sugar, 2 tablespoons lemon juice.

• peach: Oh by the way, a gently poached ripe peach is much sharper than you expect.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: All the objects can be stored in drama resource boxes and used when the time seems ripe.

• become: Usually taken in late spring and early summer from young shoots before they start to become ripe, or woody and hard.