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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.
Following is a list of eponymous adjectives in English. A–C. Aaronic – Aaron (as in Aaronic Priesthood) Abbasid – Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib (as in Abbasid dynasty)
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 ...
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".
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Modal adjectives can express modality regarding a situation or a participant in that situation. With situations, some usual syntactic patterns include an extraposed subject, [3] such as the underlined elements in the following examples with the modal adjective in bold. Here the modal adjective is analyzed semantically as a sentential modal ...
Similar behavior is displayed by many adjectives with the suffix -able or -ible (e.g. the best room available, the only decision possible, the worst choice imaginable, the persons liable). Certain other adjectives with a sense similar to those in the foregoing categories are customarily found postpositively ( all the people present , the first ...