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For questions about a word or group of words that modify a noun they are immediately adjacent to without a linking verb. In English, attributives normally precede the noun they modify. For example, the adjective "brown" in "brown cows" or the noun in "government official".
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Is the adjective phrase "hungry and tired" "attributive" in the sentence "After the long jou...
After the long journey, the three of them went back home, hungry and tired.
As for the phrase "hungry and tired" , I can understand that it is used to modify "the three of them". But I cannot figure …
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