gripe

Preposition: about

• book: My only real gripe about the book is the standard of some of the photographs.

Object

• pain: Infacol is given to babies to relieve griping pain, infant colic or wind due to trapped air.

Converse of object

• have: I have a gripe about family rooms in pubs.
• get: Got a gripe or a compliment or something to say?
• hear: All teachers have heard the old gripes, why should I have to learn fractions?
• find: I struggled to find any gripes about this hardware.

Adjective modifier

• minor: I have however, one minor, tiny little gripe, directed mainly at the media.
• big: The biggest gripe most people will have is with game saves.
• only: My only gripe about the article; my picture should have been larger than Nadine's!
• main: My main gripe is the absence of two- player levels.
• major: The major gripe I have with them is they do not pay " on.. .
• real: My real gripe is against the hot air hand drier.

Modifies a noun

• water: Runs on milk, Baby oil and gripe water.
• site: This is a gripe site and most people like to gripe at you.
• session: Will meet with all research students ( gripe session ) quarterly.

Modifying Another Word

• about: You'd think they'd like to trim some of the costs of tech support that their always griping about ).
• only: Well, I'll get my one and only gripe out of the way now.
• n't: Q. Why ca n't gripe water be given to babies under a month old?
• still: You want to be dominated but still gripe about it.
• not: I'm not griping or even criticizing, I'm just asking why?