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classed separately, as determiners. Examples: That's a
funny idea. (
Attributive) That idea is funny. (Predicative) Tell me
something funny. (Postpositive)...
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classed into
attributives.
Attributives are few in number, and
unlike the
other words, are
strictly limited to
modifying nouns.
Attributives never predicate...
- head noun. It may be an:
attributive adjective attributive noun
attributive verb or
other part of speech, such as an
attributive numeral.
Property (attribute)...
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profanity or "bad language",
though there are also
inoffensive expletive attributives. The word is
derived from the
Latin verb explere,
meaning "to fill",...
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Adjectives and
adjective phrases function in two
basic ways,
attributively or predicatively. An
attributive adjective (phrase)
precedes the noun of a noun phrase...
- money" verb+verb mukul-milvan "to murder"
attributive+verb chʼul-totin "to
become a godfather"
Attributives are
words that can
function as predicates...
- determiner, noun, and
attributive also varies,
though with
morphological consequences.
There is
number and
gender agreement on both
attributives (for head nouns)...
- An
attributive verb is a verb that
modifies (expresses an
attribute of) a noun in the
manner of an
attributive adjective,
rather than
express an independent...
-
expletive attributives (or, equivalently,
attributive expletives or
attributive-only expletives; they also
qualify as
expressive attributives), because...
- the en dash is
usually used
instead of a
hyphen in
compound (phrasal)
attributives in
which one or both
elements is
itself a compound,
especially when the...
