Modifies a noun

• man: In North America no-one forces farmers, who are thrifty, shrewd business men or women, to use biotechnology.

• people: The stream increased largely since 1848, and now they number 6,000,000 of energetic and thrifty people.

• hypothesis: Br Med Bull, 60, 21-32, PubMed Hales, C.N. and Barker, D.J. ( 2001 ) The thrifty phenotype hypothesis.

• farmer: The bank is as necessary to the thrifty farmer as it is to the greatest railroad or the most wide-spread trust.

• folk: Being thrifty folk, we'd saved on the van hire and opted to do the weekend in cars.

• living: Rosie Millard: Thrifty living Published: 11 March 2006 Snap!

Modifying Another Word

• extremely: This successful fundraising, together with extremely thrifty and efficient hard work helped to steady RNIB's finances by the end of 2004/05.

• too: The coal owners were much too thrifty to supply candles to trapper boys.