There are grammar books that call these sorts of things, not modifiers, but adjuncts (A).
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Adjuncts
Synonyms for "adjuncts" (19 found)
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Closest matches (4)
Strong matches (6)
Noun(6 words)
Related words (9)
Noun(9 words)
guest lecturermodifiernonessential modifieroptional qualifierpart time facultysubsidiarysupplementsupplementaryvisiting instructor
Related word relations
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8 entriesMore specific
13 entriesadjunct professoradjuvant chemotherapyadjuvant radiotherapyadverbialauxiliarymanner adjunctsoptionalpart time lecturerplace adjunctsprepositional adjunctsubsidiarysupplementarytime adjuncts
Collocations
12 entriesadjunct facultyadjunct professoradjunctive therapyadjuncts in courseworkadjuncts in linguisticsadjuncts to teachingadjuncts to the curriculumadjuncts to the facultyadjuncts to the projectadverbial adjunctnoun adjunctpart time faculty
Inflections
2 entriesmore adjunctmost adjunct
Derivations
3 entriesSample sentences
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It is a simple corollary of our definition that the most special of substantives, proper names, cannot be turned into adjectives (or adjuncts, see below) without really losing their character of proper names and becoming more general.
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