Timeline for Is 'kickoff' an adjective?
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| Feb 1, 2023 at 17:27 | comment | added | John Lawler | English has millions of Noun Compounds like pony ride, snake bite, dog collar, fish smell, where both nouns have a particular meaning relation with each other. But nouns can and often do modify other nouns. The "Parts of Speech" taught in schools are for Latin and not English, which has sportier accoutrements. | |
| Jan 31, 2023 at 13:00 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Most English words can be used in the role of many different "Parts of Speech", especially in informal contexts. Dictionaries only normally list the most common usages for a word, but almost every noun can be used "attributively" even if it doesn't happen often. | |
| Jan 31, 2023 at 11:34 | answer | added | user 66974 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 31, 2023 at 11:23 | comment | added | Walter Mitty | If an attributive noun and regular noun pair are used frequently in conversation, they begin to pick up a meaning of thier own. Example: mushroom cloud. | |
| Jan 31, 2023 at 9:38 | history | edited | KillingTime | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 31, 2023 at 9:36 | comment | added | Stuart F | It can be an attributive noun - see this question. | |
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| S Jan 31, 2023 at 9:34 | history | asked | Carly Forsaith | CC BY-SA 4.0 |