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:
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.
While reaching the theoretical limit for super-sentences, Bruce's creation is rather awkward, with the adjective clause, “which overcomes,” emerging as a dangling modifier.
So do, surely, BeeWee intensifications, doubling the epithet; a Windward Islander may call a fruit sweet-sweet , one adjective not sufficing to express feelings about it enough.
In the last two examples an adjective switches to an adverb.
Mr. Delaney is a victim of the confusion so often experienced by Latin students between the gerund, which is a neuter noun, active in meaning, and the gerundive, which is an adjective of similar form, but passive in meaning.