adjectival phrase in a sentence
Examples
- But by standard rules of journalism, the statement " Mann said of the leaked emails, " xxxxx " " is attributing only the quote to Mann, not the preceeding adjectival phrase.
- In the case without " the ", the phrase " American starlet " acts as a kind of personal title adjectival phrase modifying the subject " Paris Hilton ".
- A resultative is either an adjectival phrase indicating the state of a noun resulting from the completion of the event denoted by the verb, or a verbal construction denoting the result state of an event.
- :: : : It's an adjectival phrase, coming between " fanboy gamer " ( two adjectives ) and the noun " sites " and is in no way referring to the editors in question.
- :: Definitely an adjective . " Structural " is an adjective modifying the noun " design " in the phrase " structural design ", which is in turn an adjectival phrase modifying the noun " architect ".
- The adjectival phrase " Great British " is very rarely used to refer to Great Britain, other than to contrive a pun on the word " great ", as in " Great British Food ".
- Later, in the Baroque era, the label " rondeau " ( or the adjectival phrase " en rendeau " ) was applied to dance movements in simple refrain form by such composers as Jean-Baptiste Lully and Louis Couperin.
- Most of the words changed by this process are nouns, but a few are adjectival e . g . " bales " of cotton ( rotten ), or the adjectival phrase " on one's tod " for " on one's own ", after Tod Sloan, a famous jockey.
- Richard Nixon, in his next-to-last " S . O . U ., " as we speechwriters called the annual messages ( written, as Thomas Jefferson preferred ) or addresses ( spoken, as Woodrow Wilson preferred ), used a defensive adjective, a conservative adjective and an uplifting adjectival phrase.
- "" Nintendo Hard is an adjectival phrase used among older video game players when refering to games that are extremely challenging to play, or even unbalanced against the player . " " I removed a speedy tag from this article because it doesn't meet the criteria, but I agree that this neologism was probably made up on the spot.