Modifying Another Word

• truly: Charnwood Lodge remains one of the last truly wild areas in the Forest.

• pretty: South American fiestas can be pretty wild with drinking, dancing, games and music.

• wonderfully: Beyond that, tho, both places have wonderfully wild and unspoiled tracts, and are populated by proudly independent-minded people.

• essentially: Even the Council of Europe recognizes that ducks are essentially wild birds ( 2 ).

• absolutely: Absolutely wild in terms of his reaction to anything, any mention of David Phillips at all.

• rather: Unlike Goffman's often rather wild theorizing this study is based on detailed analysis of 1120 consultations, mostly in children's neurology clinics.

Converse of object

• explore: In contrast, you could explore the wilds of Exmoor National Park.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• drive: Angie Brown drove the crowd wild and got festival goers to their feet dancing under the beautiful sunshine.

Modifies a noun

• boar: Despite numerous signs of wild boar, we failed to find any.

• flower: Below lie bright green meadows alive with wild flowers all summer.

• animal: Born Free will continue to spread the message: wild animals belong in the wild.

• beast: Today, wild beasts are confined to the Theological Gardens.

• bird: Most of these do not affect wild birds or only cause mild illness in birds.

• mushroom: Do not feed wild mushrooms to people who don't want to eat them.

Used with adjective complement

• grow: Around one hundred of these remarkable trees, ' living fossils ' , are known to be growing wild.

• go: Wild Garden You stand panting in a clearing of a garden gone wild, behind a dark ruin of a house.

• run: Here the river runs wild with no dams to slow her pace.

• live: Reindeer can be found living wild in parts of Norway but perhaps the most curious creature is the wolverine.

• seem: To him it seemed as wild a tale as it may now seem to you.

• become: But how do you make a garden wildlife friendly without it becoming plain wild?