Modifying Another Word

• also: They are also unarmed: where coercion is required, the responsibility becomes that of the higher tier of police.

• mainly: Rights groups say that upwards of 1,000 people - mainly unarmed civilians - were killed by government troops.

Modifies a noun

• demonstrator: Only they weren't, they were firing at snipers who were shooting at unarmed demonstrators.

• civilian: The vast majority of the victims are unarmed civilians.

• protester: Must be capable of stopping unarmed peace protesters entering premises.

• protestor: Troops opened fire on unarmed peaceful protestors on the evening of June the 3rd 1989.

• combat: In her fighter cockpit or in unarmed combat, she's force to be reckoned with.

• prisoner: The field where the unarmed British prisoners where shot.

Used with adjective complement

• go: Even the boys carry knives, and hardly any adult villager goes unarmed.

• shoot: A South Armagh man from a strongly republican village, Aiken showed " no compunction about shooting unarmed Protestants " .