Modifying Another Word

• relatively: This would be a relatively sudden and dramatic increase over and above the 730 billion metric tons already in the atmosphere.

• rather: The décor, in rather sudden primary colors, befits the hotel's modernity and youthful appeal.

• so: Because the eruption was so sudden, thousands were killed.

• too: Meacher agreed, but he said that the price rise was too sudden and too high.

• quite: Like I say, the move was all quite sudden and I only signed the contract less than a week ago.

• very: A month later, very sudden my uncle mark was killed in a car crash in Ayr.

Modifies a noun

• death: The game went to sudden death, first to score.

• onset: The sudden onset of cold weather is probably the reason.

• surge: This is what leads to the sudden surge in death rates.

• burst: There was a sudden burst of gas from a side working in the five-feet seam.

• influx: How else can a sudden influx of confidence in the face of serious illness be explained?

• syndrome: Sudden infant death syndrome accounted for 42 cases, 4 fewer than in 1995.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: I'd known they were moving for a long time, but it still seemed sudden.

• cause: The effect is to cause sudden binding or grinding down of worm teeth.

• make: She would also make sudden, unpredictable moves and call sharply on a number of students in turn to answer the same question.

• come: A Dream Over known fields with an old friend in dream I walked, but came sudden to a strange stream.