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... adjectives , nominals , and adverbs . The flexibility of the passive increases its usefulness . Adjectives are said to modify a noun . Cognitively , in terms of what modify means to our interpretive processes , adjectives change the ...
... adjectives , nominals , and adverbs . The flexibility of the passive increases its usefulness . Adjectives are said to modify a noun . Cognitively , in terms of what modify means to our interpretive processes , adjectives change the ...
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... adjectives , but the vowel can be " i , " too . ) Like agent- less -ed modifiers , these adjectives attribute inherent traits to the nouns they precede , but -able incorporates the concept of potentiality . In English we have two ...
... adjectives , but the vowel can be " i , " too . ) Like agent- less -ed modifiers , these adjectives attribute inherent traits to the nouns they precede , but -able incorporates the concept of potentiality . In English we have two ...
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... adjectives , and , in the process , illustrated the potentiality inherent in the ending -able and how the activity of the suppressed experiencer becomes an attribute of a noun . ( In this case , the adjective functioned as a noun , a ...
... adjectives , and , in the process , illustrated the potentiality inherent in the ending -able and how the activity of the suppressed experiencer becomes an attribute of a noun . ( In this case , the adjective functioned as a noun , a ...
Contents
The Glamour of Grammar | 1 |
Language Is a Woman | 16 |
self | 19 |
Copyright | |
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