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Tagged with predicative-complement adjectives
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Why doesn't "Kinda good" work as an attributive adjective?
The movie is kinda good. (Predicative - Sounds okay)
It is a kinda good movie. (Attributive - Sounds kinda wrong?)
Why is this so?
There were very few results for "is a kinda good movie" ...
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dead: predicative or attributive?
I know that dead is an adjective.
however, in two sentences,
He is dead
Dead man is over there.
I am confused of property of adjective.
It seemed that 1 used as predicative adjective, whereas ...
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this trip is overnight?
It's grammatically correct to say this overnight trip but is it possible to say This trip is overnight?
And what is the difference between
It happened overnight.
It happened over the night.
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Is "close" in this sentence an adjective or an adverb?
The sentence is the following.
"We came close to landing the deal, but the contractor turned us down at the last minute."
I would like to know whether "close" in that sentence is an adjective or ...
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How reliable is Word's grammar checker?
I am a foolish.
How s you.
Do these sentences have grammar problems?
Because I think foolish is an adjective.
In general, how reliable is Word's grammar checker? What do I have to watch out for?
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