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Adjectives are just one of several different types of noun modifiers, typically used to premodify or describe a noun. Do not confuse adjectives with nouns used attributively to modify other nouns. Adjectives have comparative and superlative degrees, can be used as predicate adjectives in copulae, and can themselves be modified by intensifiers and adverbs but not by other adjectives. Nouns in attribution fail all those tests.
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Who are you romantically jealous of? [no joke]
Who are you romantically jealous of?
Say A (f) and B (m) are a couple, but B is way too friendly towards C (f) which makes A jealous. But who is A jealous of? B or C?
Or C (f) has a crush on B (m), …
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What's the adjective for "not likely to have a boyfriend/girlfriend"? [closed]
What's the adjective for "not likely to have a boyfriend/girlfriend"? As in "You're such a klutz; you won't get a boyfriend." or "You're always procrastinating; no girl would ever likes you." So what …
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Adjective for "lacking/losing/wanting of elasticity/stretchiness after too much stretching" ...
When certain elastic or stretchy objects are overstretched, especially in prolonged periods, they may lose elasticity altogether and cannot return to their unstretched state. What would be an adjectiv …
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What is the usage of adjectives directly after a non-copular verb (phrase) called?
Thanks to BillJ's comment, I Googled "predicative adjunct" and got this this among the results, which suggests "secondary predicate". So "secondary predicate" it is, then.
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What's the adjective for "register" in the linguistic sense?
What's the adjective for register in the linguistic sense (formal, informal, frozen, etc.)?
There is a ___________ difference between "how do you do" and "howdy".
I thought up something like registe …
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What is the usage of adjectives directly after a non-copular verb (phrase) called?
In these examples, the complementary adjectives and the verbs concur, but the verbs themselves are not the copulae that connect the adjectives to the subjects. … Instead, the verbs express actions or states that are independent of the adjectives. …
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Strict adjective for "in a different country, not your own", for use before a noun (attribut...
What would be a usable alternative to overseas, in the very strict sense of "living in a country not your own"?
It is strange that the most common attributive adjective for this notion is overseas, be …
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Strict adjective for "in a different country, not your own", for use before a noun (attribut...
The answer I now accept is expatriate. I did have some reservations when I looked it up on Lexico, which is now Dictionary.com, and as far as I can tell other dictionaries don't make the same claims a …
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Obsessed or Obsessive?
With regards to describing a person who just can't stop thinking about something. The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (3rd Edition) defines these words as follows:
obsessed: unable to stop …
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What could possibly cause the stress shift in adverbs ending in -arily compared to adjective...
Here are some adjectives and adverbs. … not occur), what is so unique about -ary adjectives and -arily adverbs? …
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Why are English tense names backward (adjective after noun)? [duplicate]
When it comes to French-origin adjectives, the tradition of using postpositive adjectives tend to be limited to a few longstanding institutions, like the military, the government, the monarchy, the judicial … What were the circumstances under which naming tenses with postpositive adjectives arose? …
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Is "in two-yearly intervals" a proper construction?
There's this construction, "x-yearly intervals", in a textbook I found.
The graph shows Europe's jay population from 1996-2004 at two-yearly intervals.
Shouldn't it be "two-year intervals" instead?
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"one/two/three-car households" vs "single/dual/triple-car households" (attributive forms)
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a one-way ticket/street
a three-way tie between A City, B City and C City
a five-year plan presented to the cabinet
When it comes to people with agency, ownership or possession, I feel like the adjectives … dual-citizenship individual
a single-income family
But then there are also cases where no humans are involved like:
a single/dual-core CPU
So how do you determine which cases to use numbers and which to use adjectives …
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