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From an adjective: This is a redirect from an adjective, which is a word or phrase that describes a noun, to a related word or topic. Template documentation [ view ] [ edit ] [ history ] [ purge ] This template is used on approximately 6,900 pages and changes may be widely noticed.
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Academic Word List; Glossary of American terms not widely used in the United Kingdom; List of animal names; List of English abbreviations made by shortening words; List of homophonic abbreviations; English auxiliary verbs; List of English auxiliary verbs
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Some lists of common words distinguish between word forms, while others rank all forms of a word as a single lexeme (the form of the word as it would appear in a dictionary). For example, the lexeme be (as in to be ) comprises all its conjugations ( is , was , am , are , were , etc.), and contractions of those conjugations. [ 5 ]
List of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom; List of British words not widely used in the United States; List of South African English regionalisms; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: A–L; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z
Such adjective phrases can be integrated into the clause (e.g., Love dies young) or detached from the clause as a supplement (e.g., Happy to see her, I wept). Adjective phrases functioning as predicative adjuncts are typically interpreted with the subject of the main clause being the predicand of the adjunct (i.e., "I was happy to see her"). [11]
An eponymous adjective is an adjective which has been derived from the name of a person, real or fictional. Persons from whose name the adjectives have been derived are called eponyms. [1] Following is a list of eponymous adjectives in English.