adjectives

• 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).