Adjective

//ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv//

"Adjective" in a Sentence (19 examples)

In English there are eight main parts of speech: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction and finally interjection.

'-osity' is an abstract noun word ending created from the ending of an '-ous' adjective.

Things that modify nouns (adjective, or adjectival equivalent).

There are two ways of using the infinitive as an adjective, 1. attributive, 2. predicative. Naturally 2. is a subject complement.

In Esperanto an adjective ends in "a." The plural is formed by adding "j."

Perhaps the only adjective in the English language that can follow the noun it modifies is "unknown".

Don't forget that the adjective must agree with its noun.

You have to put an adjective after "不够."

In this case, the adjective goes before the noun.

The search for the appropriate adjective proved to be difficult.

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The words “big” and “heavy” are English adjectives.

"They'll have to invent new adjectives when I come back. You wait!"

"We have fallen into the culture of adjectives and adverbs, and we have forgotten the strength of nouns," he said.

The Brazilian football legend, who passed away in December, has been added to the Portuguese edition of the Michaelis dictionary as an adjective to describe someone or something “out of the ordinary.”

it must be an adjective of dain

The whole English law, substantive and adjective.

In fact, God is of not so much importance in Himself, but as the end towards which man tends. That irreverent person who said that Browning uses “God” as a pigment made an accurate criticism of his theology. In Browning, God is adjective to man.

Language has as much occasion to adjective the distinct signification of the verb, and to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has […] adjectived all three.

In English, instead of adjectiving our own substantives, we have borrowed, in immense numbers, adjectived signs from other languages[…]

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