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  • associative adjectives

    The exclusion of associative adjectives from predicative position is an automatic result.
  • attributive adjectives

    3.7 Another answer which has been put forward is that postnominal attributive adjectives are abbreviated clauses.
  • postverbal adjectives

    Adverbal and postverbal adjectives
  • adjectives and adverbs

    Qualifying adjectives and adverbs should be avoided and the use of unadorned nouns and verbs relied on.
  • drop the adjectives

  • adjectives soviet

  • certain adjectives

    Alan Bennett says: ‘Critics should be searched for certain adjectives at the door of the theatre.
  • postnominal adjectives

    It appears that there is an effective limit of one on the number of postnominal adjectives permitted.
  • ascriptive adjectives

    Now, given a phrase consisting of adjective + noun, we may say that, for ascriptive adjectives, the referential locus of the adjective and of the noun are one and the same, in other words that but that for associative adjectives .
  • adjectives expressing

    This would quite naturally be true of adjectives of colour, size, and weight, and of other adjectives expressing basic perceptual notions.
  • number of adjectives

    They tie in with the large number of adjectives which emphasize ugliness and torpor: raw, rough, ragged, forsaken, stagnant, dishevelled, etc.
  • prenominal adjectives

    More generally, it seems that there are many cases where prenominal adjectives express occasion values, and not a few where a characteristic, in his sense, is expressed by a postnominal adjective.
  • adverbal adjectives

    The first is that there is a clear tendency for adverbal adjectives to outrank predicate qualifiers in grammaticality when moved next to the verb and in front of the object.
  • use of adjectives

    I have discouraged the use of adjectives in the last two chapters but here you can see them used with superb skill.
  • nouns and adjectives

    Verbs, nouns and adjectives that may take an infinitive with to may be followed by to without an infinitive to refer to a preceding verb or verbal group: Don't go unless you want to (Zandvoort 1957).

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