It is too often assumed by those who should know better, that the adjective "higher" exhibits the arrogance of those using it, who claim thereby an unwarranted precedence for their methods.
When the adjective is more closely joined, the plural ending must be placed at the end of the entire word.
Copied fair” shows an idiomatic use of an adjective form which perhaps can be justified, but the combination has given way in these days to “made a fair copy of.
Usually the noun ends in ant, the adjective in ent.
It is often simply a matter of convenience which word is considered as a noun and which as anadjective .
What Rule do you apply in parsing the indefinite adjective pronouns?
A noun is the name of a thing; but an adjective denotes simply the quality or property of a thing.
By what rule can you distinguish an adjective from an adverb?
Elegant and slow are also inaccurate, for it is not the office of the adjectiveto express the manner, time, or place of the action of verbs and participles, but it is the office of the adverb.
Sometimes the adjective precedes the article; as, "As great a man as Alexander; Such a shame.
The adjective like is a contraction of the participle likened, and generally has the preposition unto understood after it.
To-night she merited, without doubt, their adjective "cold.
Far Edgerley did not object to its adjective so long as it was not considered as applying especially to the distance between it and the lower town.
The crement is employed when the noun is used with numeral adjectives, when it has adjective or other affixes, and generally when it enters into composition with other words.
Frequently the affixed adjective is never employed as an isolated word.
But, in general, the substantive and the adjective coalesce in one word.
From kanonsa, house, with theadjective termination es, long.
In general, however, the plural significance of nouns is left to be inferred from the context, the verb always and the adjective frequently indicating it.
The ordinary word for "long house" is kanonses or kanonsis,--the termination es or is being the adjective suffix which signifies long.
A Subjective Predicate Adjective is anadjective that completes the verb and modifies the subject.
He is a born observer of physical nature, and, whenever he applies an adjective to some object or passingly alludes to some phenomenon which others have but noted, is almost infallibly correct.
These axioms, it is said, are purely arithmetical, and do not, like the others, ascribe an adjective to space.
A is to define, at the same time, all the other members, and to give an adjective to A, is to give an adjective to B and C.
Externality, when predicated of anything, is anadjective of that thing, and implies a reference to some other thing.
This line, being determined by the two points, may be regarded as a relation of the two points, or an adjective of the system formed by both together.
Expressing a degree greater or less than the positive degree of the quality denoted by an adjective or adverb.
The Sabeans worshipped the many-breasted Artemis under the name Almaquah, which is radically alma, and the Greeks used the word alma as an adjective meaning nourishing.
From Pan comes the adjective pan meaning all, universal, so that Alban may perhaps be equated with Holy Pan.
I have already suggested that the Gogs were unpopular among the Greeks, and the intensity of their feeling is seemingly reflected by the Greek adjective kakos[535] (the English gagga?
The Bitch-nourished Brethren are radically bre, for the -ther of brother is the same adjective as occurs in father, mother, and sister.
Janaka, the Sanscrit for father, is seemingly allied to the English adjective jannock or jonnack, which may be equated more or less with canny.
The character in which Helen was esteemed may be judged from the Welsh adjective alain, which means "exceeding fair, lovely, bright".
In Danish the two terms are identical, and there is very little doubt that the one is an adjective derived from the other.
The British adjective big is of unknown origin and has no Anglo-Saxon equivalent.
The adjective described the Greek so well that the others laughed.
Margaret moved uneasily at the name, which seemed to pursue her since she had left New York; but her present companion was the first person who had applied to him the adjective 'poor.
The Greek thought of early Christian times had become stereotyped; it is often characterized as sterile, but no adjective could be less apt in view of the mass and power of the doctrines that sprang from it.
Discuss the force of the adjective "loud" in this connection.
His first job was as a cub reporter on the journal that newspapermen affectionately call "the old Sun"; the adjective is pronounced as though it were in italics.
What adjective pertaining to mankind forms a true contrast to porcine?
Another thing to avoid is the use of words in the wrong parts of speech, as a noun for a verb, or an adjective for an adverb.
Words Related in Blood> As an illustration of blood kinships enjoyed by a native English word take the adjective good.
The adjective OEnotrian, from the OEnotri, is suggested.
The epithet Magna in Magna Graecia as applied to Southern Italy, is an adjective which in every other instance of its use, denotes the mother country--the colony being designated by the contrary epithet little.
Many American children have heard only the superlative form of the adjective used in the comparison of two objects.
Vindo- is connected either with the adjective vindos, 'white', or with the personal name Vindos derived from that adjective.
That is, the inscription ended with some part of the Romano-British name of Lincoln, Lindum, or of its adjective Lindensis.
Suspense[13] is gained by placing a Participle or Adjective that qualifies the Subject, before the Subject.
Often, where an adjective or auxiliary verb comes at the end, the addition of an emphatic adverb justifies the position, e.
A compound adjective can be used, including "daily.
Should such a reforming association arise, I beg to recommend to its attention all those mongrel names that have the adjective New prefixed to them, and pray they may be one and all kicked out of the country.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adjective" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
