Timeline for Compound Adjectives and -ed
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| Jul 31, 2020 at 8:58 | answer | added | Giorgos St. Malfas | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 27, 2014 at 9:02 | vote | accept | VBpac | ||
| Jan 27, 2014 at 9:02 | vote | accept | VBpac | ||
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| Jan 27, 2014 at 9:02 | vote | accept | VBpac | ||
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| Jan 27, 2014 at 9:01 | vote | accept | VBpac | ||
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| Jan 26, 2014 at 18:50 | answer | added | rogermue | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 26, 2014 at 11:52 | comment | added | Peter Shor | Great question. These have been around a long time — Shakespeare talked about "green-eyed jealousie" — so maybe they're the remnant of some Middle English grammar which is obsolete except in this type of adjective. | |
| Jan 26, 2014 at 10:48 | answer | added | None | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jan 26, 2014 at 9:30 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | related Do adjectives ending in -ed derive from words that were once used as verbs? | |
| Jan 26, 2014 at 7:35 | answer | added | Mari-Lou A | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 26, 2014 at 7:32 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/427343158998237185 | ||
| Jan 26, 2014 at 6:54 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 26, 2014 at 6:50 | comment | added | VBpac | There really doesn't seem to be a neat answer to this question, but this might help make it a bit clearer. Thanks! | |
| Jan 26, 2014 at 6:02 | answer | added | jbeldock | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 26, 2014 at 5:56 | comment | added | Richard Haven | Great question. If one called him "short-temper man", it sounds like a title (a super-hero name). We seem to need an adjective instead of a noun. | |
| Jan 26, 2014 at 5:56 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jan 26, 2014 at 5:36 | history | asked | VBpac | CC BY-SA 3.0 |