Questions tagged [adjective-phrases]
for questions about a phrase including an adjective and its modifiers that acts as an adjective.
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Why do you need to say 'something new', but not 'new something'?
Why you can't put 'new' in front of 'something' to use 'new' as adjective to describe 'something'?
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What's the word for "been fighting for years"?
I want to shorten the following sentence by making an adjective out of the phrase "parties that have been fighting for many years now":
"The initiative aims at building trust among the parties that ...
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What is the grammatically difference between these two sentences?
Does the only difference is "being continuous"?
what is the difference in terms of meaning?
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Can "geology" be used as an adjective?
I have to translate a national agency from my native language into English.
I have 3 options, as follows:
National Geological Agency
Geological Agency of country X
National Geology Agency
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grammatical function of "about to"
He is about to open the door.
What part of speech is "about to" in this sentence? Is it an adjective, or an adverb?
I am really confused, and somewhere I read that it is idiomatic as well.
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Usage of "at its zenith"
Excerpted from The New Yorker:
Eliot thought that a classic, in the strictest sense, was a work that apotheosized a great civilization at its zenith; so exacting (or, if you like, priggish) are his ...
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Burning house as an active adjective
"Burning house" is an active adjective. But i cant figure out how is that -ing form in burning house make the word as an active adj. How can we differ burning house and burnt house..
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Adjective phrase for a list of something
I wrote:
After selecting a filter designed for a specific website (e.g. Wikipedia), click on 'Sample article' on the top corner of the filter list to load a sample page for testing the filter.
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What does "three-stone weakling" mean?
Three-stone weakling
From Wikipedia, stone is defined as a unit：
The stone or stone weight (abbreviation: st.) is an English and
imperial unit of weight or mass now equal to 14 avoirdupois ...
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Which sentence is grammatically incorrect?
It is fun to talk with foreigners.
Do you have something to eat?
This is a deep lake to swim.
She must be warm-hearted to help you.
She lived to be ninety.
On the answer sheet, the answer ...
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How to name correctly categories marked as grey or black
Suppose there is online store with hundreds of categories. Some are inactive or disabled. The other ones can be browsed and are enabled. Respectively, inactive are greyed out, active ones are marked ...
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Is "there are two cars available for selection" correct?
Is the following sentence correct?
There are two cars available for selection
If yes, why can the clause "available for selection" put behind the clause "There are two cars" without any ...
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adverb phrase or adjective phrase
You can take a short ferry ride from the city of Surabaya to Madura for a heart-stopping bull race, filled with excitement.
In the sentence, is the phrase "filled with excitement" adverb phrase or ...
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Is this sentence grammatically correct? "the birth a planet the size of Jupiter"
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Scientists recently witnessed the birth a planet the size of Jupiter...
You can find the original article here.
I have two questions:
I think it must be the birth "of" a planet, ...
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Adjectives to describe rectangular and round objects?
What is the adjectives to describe rectangular and round objects? For example, cars come with variety of shapes. Classic cars from 80's years tend to be rectangular, with edges and corners. On the ...
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A sentence with adjectival time prepositional phrase
1 A man after the storm is usually in despair.
My friend wrote this sentence, and it is fairly understandable. But there was a little problem. It is clear that the "who is" is deleted, but when I ...
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what is the part of speech of "wider and wider"?
I saw some sentences using "wider and wider".but at times , i cannot get the part of speech or something like function of this phrase.
OP 1."Wolf's trot broke into a run, wider and wider were the ...
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Can we use "much more superior"?
My game is much more superior to yours.
Can we use much more in this sentence?
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There is a little water in the pot. There is some water in the pot
There is a little water in the pot.
There is some water in the pot.
What is the difference between them?
How can I distinguish these sentences?
I am a bit confused.
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what is the function of "a foot" in this sentence?
"Tsunami waves may appear only a foot or so high."
Does "a foot" function as an adverbial phrase or subject complement?
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Does healthy or strong go first when used together?
He is a strong healthy man.
He is a healthy strong man.
Which is the correct answer and why?
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"The falling + Noun" question
If I didn't know the noun compound "hair loss" and I wanted to describe to a pharmacist that I have hair that has been falling out and needed a shampoo with the right formula for it.
Why can't I ...
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This method is more easy to understand. This method is easier to understand [duplicate]
This method is more easy to understand.
This method is easier to understand.
Which one is correct sentence and why?
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Paraphrase "back to basics experiments"? [closed]
[…] such back to basics experiments are precisely what a pheromone researcher at Oxford University argues for in another paper just published in the proceedings of the Royal Society […]
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What is the adjective for "problem solving"?
In this question, I want to say about the drawing which is less artistic and more problem solving. But problem solving is not adjective, as contrast to artistic.
Is there an adjective for problem ...
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What constitutes an adjective phrase?
Participle phrase (which acts as an adjective )
prepositional phrase (which can be used as either an adverb phrase or an adjective phrase)
Q : So adjective phrase is just a fancy name that can be ...
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How can I figure out whether a word is an adverb or an adjective?
How can we confirm the word modifying an adjective is an adverb which may well be adjective sometimes?
In this sentence, what are the parts of speech of 'bright' and 'red'?
She wore a bright red ...
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Can the subject be an adjective phrase, adverb phrase, or a bare infinitival clause?
This is an exercise in Chapter 5 of a textbook by Bas Aarts, English Syntax and Argumentation, 4th edition, published 2013, on page 88:
In previous editions of this book I allowed for adjective ...
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Function of participle clause: ... switch back and forth, alternating their positions ...
I am trying to determine the function of the participle phrase in the following sentence:
When they play, they switch back and forth, alternating their positions until the game ends.
Is the ...
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How can we differentiate between adjectives and past participles?
How can we differentiate between adjectives and past participles?
For example if we say:
The project is excited
excited in this example would be the adjective, but:
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How should I understand "of the 8th"?
I found this sentence:
Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (ca. AD ...
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How "long gone" can be used in a sentence
"Long gone" is a phrase which means "gone a long time ago; used up a long time ago" according to this link.
The following sentences are some samples of its usage:
The ice cream and cake are long ...
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“I’m too tired to drive”: Why does removing 'too' make this sentence ungrammatical?
This is grammatical:
I'm too tired to drive.
but this isn't:
I'm tired to drive.
Why? How can removing an adverb make a sentence ungrammatical?
In a sentence like “He slowly walked down the ...
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One seldom upset
I'm currently reading Flowers in the Attic and found this sentence that has been bugging me for a while.
My eyes widened. Such a vehement outburst from one seldom upset took me completely by ...
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It was the most helpless I have ever felt in my life - what does "the most helpless" mean?
An excerpt from Tuesdays with Morrie:
At the same time, I had my first serious encounter with death. My favorite uncle, my mother’s brother, the man who had taught me music, taught me to drive, ...
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"war-concomitant event" as a adjectival phrase
Can I use "war-concomitant" with a hyphen as adjectival phrase?
I am aware that I can say "an event concomitant with war", but I need to use it as"war-concomitant" as in "war-concomitant event" for ...
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Is "release date" grammatically correct?
Why I always heard something like "Iphone release date and price unveiled". Shouldn't it be "be released" by someone? (Iphone can't release anything itself as a lifeless object)
I look up some the ...
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Topmost-left or top-leftmost?
I am confused which term is correct. I was going to say to my friend
See the topmost-left opened tab (as in browser).
Then I realized why not say top-leftmost. Can I also say leftmost-top or left-...
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Can we use adjective after noun?
People angry with the high prices were protesting.
Can we use adjective after noun without verb to be like the example above?
Can you tell me what grammar rule is it?
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Too big of a sofa
These kinds of expressions akin to measure quantifiers just blow my mind. For me it has to be "too big gulp of whiskey" and "too big sofa". Especially c), it sounds like you placed ...
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"battles royal" vs. "battle royals"
On Wikipedia it is said:
Battle royal (plural battles royal) traditionally refers to a fight involving three or more combatants that is fought until only one fighter remains standing. In recent ...
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"a ten years old boy" or "a ten year old boy"
1) a ten years old boy is sitting on the couch.
2) a ten year old boy is sitting on the couch.
3) a ten-years old boy is sitting on the couch.
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Is 'a' implying one of the family?
Mr. Dursley hummed as he picked out his most boring tie for work, and
Mrs. Dursley gossiped away happily as she wrestled a screaming Dudley
into his high chair. (Harry Potter)
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Is the phrase "back to the Muggle world" an adjective or adverbial one?
People jostled them as they moved forward toward the gateway back to
the Muggle world. (Harry Potter)
Is the phrase "back to the Muggle world" an adjective or adverbial one?
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