单词	adjectival
释义	adjectivead‧jec‧tive /ˈædʒəktɪv/ ●●● noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINadjective Origin: 1300-1400 Old French adjectif, from Latin adjectus, past participle of adjicere, from ad- ‘to’ + jacere ‘to throw’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Answer: a. Why: When creating an unusual adjective from other types of words, use a hyphen. But perhaps more important are the adjectives. Every noun and adjective has 12 possible endings. Hence, we may reasonably expect a resultative flavour when an adverbal adjective is combined with a change-of-state verb. In stanza two it appears twice, and the adjective itself a third time alone. It appears that there is an effective limit of one on the number of postnominal adjectives permitted. The characters of the play can all be described by two adjectives - one of which is opposite to the other. The exclusion of associative adjectives from predicative position is an automatic result. word sets WORD SETS► Grammar abbr., abbreviate, verbabbreviation, nounabstract noun, nounaccusative, nounactive, adjectiveadj., adjective, nounadv., adverb, nounadverbial, adjectiveaffix, nounantecedent, nounapposition, nounarticle, nounaspect, nounattributive, adjectiveaux., auxiliary, nounauxiliary verb, nouncase, nouncausal, adjectiveclause, nouncollective noun, nouncommon noun, nouncomparative, adjectivecomparison, nouncomplement, nouncomplex, adjectivecompound, nounconcord, nounconcrete noun, nounconditional, adjectiveconditional, nounconj., conjugate, verbconjugation, nounconjunction, nounconnective, nounconstruction, nouncontinuous, adjectivecontraction, nouncoordinate, adjectivecoordinating conjunction, nouncopula, nouncountable, adjectivecount noun, noundative, noundeclension, noundefinite article, noundemonstrative, adjectivedemonstrative pronoun, noundependent clause, noundeterminer, noundirect discourse, noundirect object, noundirect speech, noundisjunctive, adjectiveditransitive, adjectivedouble negative, noun-ed, suffixending, noun-est, suffix-eth, suffixfeminine, adjectivefinite, adjectiveform, nounfunction word, nounfuture, adjectivegender, noungenitive, noungerund, noungradable, adjectivegrammar, noungrammarian, noungrammatical, adjectivehistoric present, nounhomonym, nounhomophone, nounimperative, adjectiveimperative, nounimpersonal, adjectiveindefinite article, nounindependent clause, nounindicative, nounindicative, adjectiveindirect discourse, nounindirect object, nounindirect speech, nouninfinitive, nouninflect, verbinflected, adjectiveinflection, noun-ing, suffixintensifier, nouninterjection, nouninterrogative, adjectiveinterrogative, nounintransitive, adjectivelinking verb, nounmain clause, nounmasculine, adjectivemodal, nounmodal auxiliary, nounmodal verb, nounmodifier, nounmodify, verbmood, nounn., neuter, adjectivenominal, adjectivenominative, nounnon-finite, adjectivenon-restrictive, adjectivenoun, nounnumber, nounobject, nounparse, verbparticipial, adjectiveparticiple, nounparticle, nounpartitive, nounpart of speech, nounpassive, adjectivepassivize, verbpast, adjectivepast participle, nounpast perfect, nounperfect participle, nounperiphrasis, nounpersonal pronoun, nounphrasal verb, nounphrase, nounpl., plural, nounplural, adjectiveplurality, nounpossessive, adjectivepossessive, nounpredeterminer, nounpredicate, nounpredicative, adjectiveprefix, nounprefix, verbprep., preposition, nounprepositional phrase, nounpres., present participle, nounprogressive, adjectivepronominal, adjectivepronoun, nounproper noun, nounpunctuate, verbpunctuation, nounqualifier, nounquantifier, nounquestion tag, nounreflexive, adjectiveregular, adjectiverelative clause, nounrelative pronoun, nounreported speech, nounrestrictive clause, nounroot, nounrule, nounrun-on sentence, nounsecond person, nounsemicolon, nounsentence, nounsentence adverb, nounsingular, adjectivesolecism, nounsplit infinitive, nounstative, adjectivestem, nounsubject, nounsubjective, adjectivesubjunctive, nounsubordinate clause, nounsubstantive, nounsuffix, nounsuperlative, adjectivesyntactic, adjectivesyntax, nountag, nountense, nountransitive, adjectiveuncountable, adjectivev., variant, nounverb, nounverbal, adjectivevocative, noun Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB► describe · You should try to form an impression of the person the adjectives describe.· What adjectives best describe lawyers in their fifties?· Adverbs Adverbs describe verbs in the same way that adjectives describe nouns.· This time, Ward faced sidereal, an adjective that describes things related to stars or constellations.· Before going into a meeting with some one, quickly jot down adjectives to describe the person.· Then write down adjectives that describe the relationship you have with each of those individuals.· In my audio record of the dive, I run out of adjectives to describe the subtle variations in the lava morphologies. ► use · This, however, is not the case for the first and third examples using the same adjective.· He had used all the obvious adjectives. a word that describes a noun or pronoun. In the phrase ‘black hat’, ‘black’ is an adjective and in the sentence ‘It makes her happy’, ‘happy’ is an adjective.—adjectival /ˌædʒəkˈtaɪvəl◂/ adjective:  an adjectival phrase
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