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In the sentence 'She is happy', 'happy' is a predicative adjective.
You can change the adjective 'sweet' into a noun by adding the suffix '-ness' to the end of the word.
In 'a sudden movement', 'sudden' is an adjective in the attributive position.
I don't think I'd call it a beautiful picture - 'interesting' might be a better adjective to use!
However, this asymmetrical distribution means that the only context that permits comparison among really, very, so and pretty as intensifiers is the predicative adjective context.
By contrast, ordinary adjectives without passive morphology were unlikely to be reanalyzed as verbs or to give rise to a verbal interpretation.
This could be due to a purely syntactic difference between number words and adjectives.
Run-down and built-in are initially stressed in attributive position, which is the more typical function of adjectives (see below).
This approach is better than straightforward translation of adjectives into other languages, as semantic meanings can often differ widely in other countries.
The drop in recall for verbs and, even more, for adjectives is mostly due to the lack of structural information.
The overall conclusion is then that from both the phonological and morphological perspective, adjectives behave very much like nouns but unlike verbs.
It has been unclear, however, whether such synchrony between caregivers and children extends into the realm of adjective acquisition.
Even for nouns and adjectives, the grammatical classes with the greatest percentage of citation forms, signers chose cf variants 32% of the time.
The association is particularly noticeable with the nominalized adjective the elderly.
Authentic texts also displayed a tendency toward having a higher incidence of adjectives and subordinating conjunctions and prepositions, but these findings only approached significance.
To ensure reliability, 10 % of the adjective utterances from a random sample of transcripts were coded independently by a fourth coder.
In addition, she classified adjectives appearing by themselves as single-word utterances as predicative.
After a notable increase of the proportion of nouns at an early stage, the proportion of predicates (verbs and adjectives) grew steadily.
The case study in this chapter deals with the adjective sheer and some of its near-synonyms as given by dictionaries: pure, complete, and absolute.
