When taking time to learn a new language, it’s important to understand all the different parts of speech. This is especially so for English; as I know, it’s one of the hardest languages to learn. One thing that can be confusing is how to turn verbs into adjectives. But how …
To make your sentences interesting and concise, you should always include adjectives to help clarify your nouns and pronouns. There are two types of adjectives: coordinate and cumulative. It’s important to know the difference between these types of adjectives, so you know how to punctuate and provide clarity to your …
Schizophrenia is a complex medical disease in which the person loses touch with reality and thinks or acts in illogical ways. A person can be schizophrenic if he or she is diagnosed with schizophrenia. The person can also be called schizophrenic if he or she shows conflicting thoughts or actions, so it is as …
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Postpositive adjectives are adjectives that follow the nouns they modify. Such constructions evince the influence that Romance languages, especially French, have had and still have on English. French, Spanish, and Italian all use postpositive adjectives as a rule. In general, postpositive adjectives sound unnatural in English, but there are a …
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A phrasal adjective (also known as an adjective phrase or compound adjective) is a phrase that modifies a noun. Phrasal adjective hyphenation When a phrasal adjective precedes a noun, it usually takes a hyphen or, for phrases of three or more words, hyphens. This makes things easier for your reader and …
words describing or qualifying nouns and pronouns.
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Uncomparable adjectives describe absolute states or conditions. Modifiers like more and less do not apply to them, and they don’t have comparative and superlative forms. Here are some of the most common uncomparable adjectives: absolute adequate chief complete devoid entire false fatal favorite final fundamental ideal impossible inevitable infinite irrevocable main …
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When you hear the word canine, you always think of a dog, right? But did you know there are other adjectives with Latin roots based on animals? I put together this huge list of adjectives for animals that I think would be helpful for writers. Find out how to use …
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Nouns sometimes function as adjectives. For example, in each of these phrases, the first word is usually a noun but here functions as an adjective modifying the second word: city government, article writer, bicycle thief, Sunday picnic, pumpkin pie. Adjective–noun confusion When this type of functional switching could cause confusion, …