Words similar to adjective
Example sentences for: adjective
How can you use “adjective” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Safire's syndrome would have been of little concern in the 18th century, before eponyms became fashionable, and, according to Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, before the adjective possessive would modify case.
The earliest uses of the adjective referred to fabrics, to distinguish ordinary or run-of-the-mill cloth from finer weaves.
The numbers in the above sentence indicate the beginning of each phrase and subordinate clause-- (1) adverb clause: “When people who swing want to see what's happening” modifies the verb try in the main clause; (2) adjective clause: “who swing” modifies the noun people ; (3) infinitive phrase: “to see what's happening” acts as the direct object of the verb want ; (4) noun clause: “what's happening” acts as the direct objective of the infinitive “to see”; (5) gerund phrase: “attending parties given by hipsters” acts as the direct object of the verb try ; (6) participial phrase: “given by hipster” modifies the noun parties ; (7) perpositional phrase: “by hipsters” modifies the passive participle given . In subsequent sentences I shall provide numbers but leave the reader to identify the structures, which will appear in varying orders, so as to avoide cluttering the discussion with labyrinthine explanations like this one.
' The agent-noun would have been contecker and the adjective conteckerous . The latter, according to the currently accepted theory, became contankerous , and then cantankerous , influenced by cankerous and rancorous .
As shrunk is a past and past participle of shrink and not, properly, an adjective, I am not sure why it is there in place of shrunken , especially since Mikhail specifically writes in his Preface, Only words listed in standard language dictionaries as adjectives are included in this Dictionary.
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