noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
describe
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You should try to form an impression of the person the adjectives describe .
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What adjectives best describe lawyers in their fifties?
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Adverbs Adverbs describe verbs in the same way that adjectives describe nouns.
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This time, Ward faced sidereal, an adjective that describes things related to stars or constellations.
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Before going into a meeting with some one, quickly jot down adjectives to describe the person.
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Then write down adjectives that describe the relationship you have with each of those individuals.
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In my audio record of the dive, I run out of adjectives to describe the subtle variations in the lava morphologies.
use
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This, however, is not the case for the first and third examples using the same adjective .
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He had used all the obvious adjectives .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
compound noun/adjective etc
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Answer: a. Why: When creating an unusual adjective from other types of words, use a hyphen.
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But perhaps more important are the adjectives.
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Every noun and adjective has 12 possible endings.
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Hence, we may reasonably expect a resultative flavour when an adverbal adjective is combined with a change-of-state verb.
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In stanza two it appears twice, and the adjective itself a third time alone.
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It appears that there is an effective limit of one on the number of postnominal adjectives permitted.
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The characters of the play can all be described by two adjectives - one of which is opposite to the other.
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The exclusion of associative adjectives from predicative position is an automatic result.