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Persons from whose name the adjectives have been derived are called eponyms. [1] Following is a list of eponymous adjectives in English. A–C
The following is a list of adjectival and demonymic forms of countries and nations in English and their demonymic equivalents. A country adjective describes something as being from that country, for example, " Italian cuisine " is "cuisine of Italy".
For example, the adjective drunken cannot be used predicatively (a drunken fool vs *the fool was drunken), [19] while the adjective awake has the opposite limitation (*an awake child vs the child is awake). It is not only certain adjectives, but also certain constructions that are limited to one function or the other.
All intersective adjectives are subsective, but the term 'subsective' is sometimes used to refer to only those subsective adjectives which are not intersective. An adjective is privative if and only if the extension of its combination with a noun is disjoint from the extension of the noun. For example, fake is privative because a fake cat is ...
a; a few; a little; all; an; another; any; anybody; anyone; anything; anywhere; both; certain (also adjective) each; either; enough; every; everybody; everyone ...
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The following is a partial list of linguistic example sentences illustrating various ... (in the example it only borrows the pronunciation but not the meaning ...