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An attributive noun, also called a noun adjunct, refers to a noun placed before another noun to modify it, like "dog" in "dog catcher" and "dog food", "heart" in "heart surgery", "running" in "running shoes", "employee" in "employee compensation", and "Peter" in "Peter Principle". It is an alternative to a prepositional phrase, like "food for dogs" or "surgery of the heart". You can use a predicate test to distinguish a noun adjunct from an adjective.
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What determines how 'cursed' (as an attributive adjective) is pronounced?
Nearly all the dictionaries only give /ˈkɜːrsɪd/ as a pronunciation associated with the metaphorical usage.
Oxford Dictionaries Online lists both pronunciations, but only gives the meaning
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Why is it "materials science" instead of "material science"?
It's materials science because material is also an adjective. The phrase material science, as opposed to, say, spiritual science, was used before people started studying the science of materials. Con …
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should a list of tokens be called a "token list" or a "tokens list"
In constructions like this you generally use the singular, although there are exceptions. Some of these exceptions may be attempts to avoid ambiguity (for example, a sundry store might be a store that …
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