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  2. English adjectives - Wikipedia

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    An adjective phrase (AdjP) is headed by an adjective and optionally takes dependents. AdjPs can take modifiers, which are usually pre-head adverb phrases (e.g., truly wonderful) or post-head preposition phrases (e.g., too big for you; afraid of the dark).

  3. Most common words in English - Wikipedia

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    A list of 100 words that occur most frequently in written ... Dolch list of 95 nouns 16 even: Adjective: 91: 107, 484: 23 new: Adjective et al. ... big into but 13 ...

  4. Adjective - Wikipedia

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    An adjective (abbreviated adj.) is a word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase.Its semantic role is to change information given by the noun. Traditionally, adjectives are considered one of the main parts of speech of the English language, although historically they were classed together with nouns. [1]

  5. List of adjectival and demonymic forms for countries and nations

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    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".

  6. Lexical hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The lexical hypothesis is a major basis of the study of the Big Five ... approximately 750 English adjectives used to ... list of approximately 400,000 words, Allport ...

  7. Lists of English words - Wikipedia

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    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

  8. List of adjectivals and demonyms for cities - Wikipedia

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    Adjectives ending -ish can be used as collective demonyms (e.g. the English, the Cornish). So can those ending in -ch / -tch (e.g. the French , the Dutch ) provided they are pronounced with a 'ch' /tʃ/ sound (e.g. the adjective Czech does not qualify as its -ch is pronounced /k/ ).

  9. Category:Lists of English words - Wikipedia

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    List of eponymous adjectives in English; List of eponyms (A–K) List of eponyms (L–Z) F. Fossil word; List of French words of English origin; G. General Service List;