Adjectives: Characteristics, Formation, and Syntactic Roles
Characteristics of Adjectives
Central Adjectives
Central adjectives can be inflected to show comparative and superlative degrees (e.g., nice-nicer-nicest). They have two main syntactic roles:
- Attributive: Part of a noun phrase, preceding and modifying the noun (e.g., brown eyes).
- Predicative: Characterizes a noun phrase that is a separate clause element. They typically occur as subject predicatives following a copular verb (be, appear, smell…) and describe the subject (e.g., The cake smells nice).
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Summary
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