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2. English adjectives - Wikipedia

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   English adjectives head phrases that typically function as pre-head modifiers of nouns or predicative complements (e.g., those nice folks seem quite capable) while English nouns head phrases that can function as subjects, or objects in verb phrases or preposition phrases (e.g., [Jess] told [my sister] [a story] about [cute animals]).

3. Adjective phrase - Wikipedia

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   An adjective phrase (or adjectival phrase) is a phrase whose head is an adjective.Almost any grammar or syntax textbook or dictionary of linguistics terminology defines the adjective phrase in a similar way, e.g. Kesner Bland (1996:499), Crystal (1996:9), Greenbaum (1996:288ff.), Haegeman and Guéron (1999:70f.), Brinton (2000:172f.), Jurafsky and Martin (2000:362).

4. Compound modifier - Wikipedia

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   Words that function as compound adjectives may modify a noun or a noun phrase.Take the English examples heavy metal detector and heavy-metal detector.The former example contains only the bare adjective heavy to describe a device that is properly written as metal detector; the latter example contains the phrase heavy-metal, which is a compound noun that is ordinarily rendered as heavy metal ...

5. English compound - Wikipedia

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   Note the example of a compound like "foxhunt": although this matches the direct-object+verb pattern, it is not grammatically used in a sentence as a verb, but rather as a noun (e.g. "they're hunting foxes tomorrow" ~> "they're going on a foxhunt tomorrow", but "not" *"they're foxhunting tomorrow").

6. Adjective - Wikipedia

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   Prepositive adjectives, which are also known as "attributive adjectives", occur on an antecedent basis within noun phrases. [6] For example: "I put my happy kids into the car", wherein happy occurs on an antecedent basis within the my happy kids noun phrase, and therefore functions in a prepositive adjective.

7. Category:Lists of phrases - Wikipedia

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   Current events; Random article; ... Pages in category "Lists of phrases" ... List of phrases using ethnic or place names as derisive adjectives; List of political ...

8. 18 Phrases To Use With Your Adult Kids That Will Transform ...

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   An adult child hugging her mom. It may seem like only yesterday you were baby-talking to a newborn or videotaping a toddler's first words. Now, that little one is all grown up.

9. Resultative - Wikipedia

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   'The Schmied smith hämmert hammers das the Metall metal flach. flat.' Der Schmied hämmert das Metall flach. 'The smith hammers the metal flat.' Verbal resultatives This sort of resultative is a grammatical aspect construction that indicates the result state of the event denoted by the verb. English does not have a productive resultative construction. It is widely accepted that the be ...