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12 questions linked to/from Adjectives versus Noun Adjuncts
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Is the noun "points" used as an adjective in "a points victory"?
I read this recently in The Economist:
At the end of the summit, the French and European officials had
claimed a points victory over the Germans by getting them to agree
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Is `without` required only noun? [duplicate]
I met an English sentence like below.
After testing on multiple machines root configurations, I was able to notice that it happens only using homestead without nfs folder sync.
This sentence ...
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What is the difference between an "uncountable noun" and an "adjective" [duplicate]
In the word "afternoon tea"(the tea that is served in afternoon) the word 'afternoon' is an uncountable noun as OALD shows.
In the word "English countryside"(the countryside that ...
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What exactly is an "adverb"?
From comments to “Weekdays” used as an adverb", I learn that The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary says "open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.", shows the word weekdays is an adverb.
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Parts of speech and functions: "Bob made a book collector happy the other day"
Having been bamboozled by various questions and answers on this site, I'd like to know what are the parts of speech (POS) and grammatical functions of the words and phrases in the following sentence:
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Can a noun work as an adjective, and the adjective as a noun?
Hazel Eyes
I found the following paragraph in the guycounseling.com blog article “Hazel Eyes: Learn Why People with Greenish Eye Color are Rare!”, containing the two words “hazel eyes”:
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What is the difference between a part of speech and a syntactic function / grammatical relation?
What is the difference between a part-of-speech and a function? In other words:
What is a part of speech. (e.g. noun)
What is a grammatical function. (e.g. head, subject)
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Is the word solvent in "solvent mixture" used as a noun or an adjective?
when I say a solvent mixture in chemistry, I found several references that say both "solvents mixture" and "solvent mixture".
I wonder if the word solvent is modifying as a noun or an adjective.
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Nouns vs. nouns used as adjectives [duplicate]
Given the following sentence:
You should always use prefixes with your table names
Is the word table properly labeled as a noun or an adjective, as it is functioning as an adjective but the base ...
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When to show possession and when not [closed]
Can anybody please explain when should I use an apostrophe S and when not to. If I am referring to certain walls that surround a kingdom, should I say "The kingdom walls" or "the kingdom's walls"
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How is "drag" an adjective in "drag show"?
The New Oxford American Dictionary defines one sense of drag to be:
Clothing more conventionally worn by the opposite sex, esp. women's clothes worn by a man: a fashion show, complete with men in ...
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How do an attributive noun (noun adjunct) and an adjective differ in the case when both forms exist and they synonymously function as a modifier?
i.e. How do ancestor worship house and ancestral worship house differ?
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ancestor [noun]
a person, typically one more remote than a grandparent, from whom one is descended.
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