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For example, because martial is a postpositive adjective in the phrase court-martial, the plural is courts-martial, the suffix being attached to the noun rather than the adjective. This pattern holds for most postpositive adjectives, with the few exceptions reflecting overriding linguistic processes such as rebracketing .
The following terms are in everyday use in financial regions, such as commercial business and the management of large organisations such as corporations. Noun phrases [ edit ]
For example, my very good friend Peter is a phrase that can be used in a sentence as if it were a noun, and is therefore called a noun phrase. Similarly, adjectival phrases and adverbial phrases function as if they were adjectives or adverbs, but with other types of phrases, the terminology has different implications.
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.
For example, the adjective carnivorous is intersective, given the extension of carnivorous mammal is the intersection of the extensions of carnivorous and mammal (i.e., the set of all mammals who are carnivorous). An adjective is subsective if and only if the extension of its combination with a noun is a subset of the extension of the noun.
Corporate speak is associated with managers of large corporations, business management consultants, and occasionally government. Reference to such jargon is typically derogatory, implying the use of long, complicated, or obscure words; abbreviations; euphemisms; and acronyms.
Understanding the meaning and usage of “stand on business,” a popular expression that is used in Drake’s song “Daylight.” (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)
The use of good adjectives makes for an effective slogan; when adjectives are paired with describing nouns, they help bring the meaning of the message out through the words. [12] When a slogan is used for advertising purposes its goal is to sell the product or service to as many consumers through the message and information a slogan provides. [13]