How To Use Adjectival In A Sentence
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Sunday Book Review cover: Walter Kirn on How Fiction Works by James Wood: The heroes of this great artistic labor tend to be semimonastic introverts who, like Wood’s beloved Henry James and Gustave Flaubert, toil with the doors shut and locked, in soundproof splendid isolation, attentive to the subtle frictions among nouns and adjectival phrases ....
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Its plural is catachreses, its adjectival forms catachrestic and catachrestical.
Catachresis and the amusing, awful and artificial cathedral
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However, it also ends in the letters -ss, suggesting that the adjectival form should be "passible.
Metropolis movie poster and clip in German
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BALANCE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. _bilantia_, an apparatus for weighing, from _bi_, two, and _lanx_, a dish or scale), a term originally used for the ordinary beam balance or weighing machine with two scale pans, but extended to include (with or without adjectival qualification) other apparatus for measuring and comparing weights and forces.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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The place was packed; Tony Woodcock, the new president of the New England Conservatory (a concert co-sponsor, with the BSO and the Celebrity Series), gave an effusive introduction with a record-high incidence of the adjectivally-modifying "absolutely".
Archive 2007-11-01
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Work in progress is “dread” used adjectivally, as in “the dread manuscript.”
Poison Pen
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Luc Sante, the NYRB and Rigney translated, allowed, and recoiled at the word preventative used adjectivally in Novels in Three Lines after which they embarked on a book tour, made back their initial investment, and threw up a previously delicious croque-monsieur.
A Different Stripe:
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Luc Sante, the NYRB and Rigney translated, allowed, and recoiled at the word preventative used adjectivally in Novels in Three Lines after which they embarked on a book tour, made back their initial investment, and threw up a previously delicious croque-monsieur.
A Different Stripe:
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Political correctness adjectivally, politically correct; both forms commonly abbreviated to PC is a term used to describe language, ideas, policies, or behavior seen as seeking to minimize offense to gender, racial, cultural, disabled, aged or other identity groups.
Quote of the Day, 2008-06-11 « Lean Left
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It works well adjectivally, too: "Are you enviro-nuts?" accompanied by raised eyebrows is worth a thousand IPCC reports.
Archive 2007-02-01
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Intransitive, transitive, causative forms, past and non-past tenses (there was no future tense in Old Tamil), participal and verbal nouns, adjectival participles and the infinitive are found in the language of the inscriptions.
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For the grammar geeks out there, I'll quote Algeo's British or American English on the topic, "A group of copular verbs (...) have predominantly adjectival complements in common-core English, but also have nominal subject complements in British more frequently than in American.
Separated by a common language
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“Nahs,” a word of many meanings; a sinister aspect of the stars (as in Hebr. end Aram.) or, adjectivally, sinister, of ill-omen.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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This word, therefore, is the one best suited to designate this specific ferment in question, and I have on this account, employed it and its adjectival derivatives in order not to resuscitate the idea of the exclusively paludal origin of the morbific agent.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884
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Luc Sante, the NYRB and Rigney translated, allowed, and recoiled at the word preventative used adjectivally in Novels in Three Lines after which they embarked on a book tour, made back their initial investment, and threw up a previously delicious croque-monsieur.
A reader-submitted novel in three lines
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Carmine guy, you quest hypophysial that adjectivally tuberose hymenopteron distantly adiently, but little get into mantiger with the few on this cellblock who adjectively racer easygoingness.
Rational Review
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Moreoever the rest of the lines explain and expand these references by using adjectival phrases and subordinate clauses which tell the reader to look for explanation within the poem itself.
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Reply: The distinction between identity and similarity statements (or sentences) is usually drawn in terms of the distinction between substantival and adjectival common nouns.
Relative Identity
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What we really have here is an adjectival clause qualifying potentially a noun phrase or a noun.
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‘Pendejo’ is a much-loved noun, which can also become adjectival, adverbial and exclamatory.
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Turning an adjectival similarity relation into a substantival one having the form of an identity statement yields an identity statement in name only.
Relative Identity
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Its adjectival paronym poneroi is used of the people of Sodom at Genesis 13: 13, while the verbal form ponereusesthe is employed by Lot to characterize the intentions of the men of the town at Genesis 19: 7.
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A history of the adjectival force of the term thus approximates a history of those qualities of inaccessibility, power, authority, and goodness which have attended the idea of God.
HOLY (THE SACRED)
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adjectival syntax
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Oddly enough, I find I have absolutely no idea what the adjectival form of "clitoris" is, but I bet you it isn't "clitic".
A post that isn't about my mother
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Individualistically adjectivally of the endothermic normative concomitant richmond hill home brno vulcaniser seen a dishonorable orthicon in the ruggedization of monosemous and dirt stinkweed.
Rational Review
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Brazil's use of the adjectival f-word is so impressive that it seems incredible that he was able to suppress it on air.
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Apps is sometimes for asp, the tree now called by the adjectival name aspen (cf. linden).
The Romance of Names
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So the adjectival clause qualifies conduct, not anybody's state of mind.
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All of them say the same thing, that stanch is the more common verbal spelling and that staunch is the more common adjectival spelling, but that the two are interchangeable.
2009 April « Motivated Grammar
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The species-level epithet of your snail is adjectivalaeneus, -a, -um: L. of copper, ergo Strobilops aeneus Pilsbry, 1926 - not S.
Strobilops aenea
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Nominal, adjectival, and verbal expressions can, however, be ‘coerced’ into serving a non-prototypical function.
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If the word is attributable to PIE, it would be *h2elu-t-, created with a noun formant *-t- attached to the aforementioned adjectival root *h2elu- "bitter".
Never judge a book by its nom de plume
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Despite "the occasional whiff of adjectival overexuberance" The Guardian sniffs, in a contemptible piece of writing which makes me want to headbutt the author, The Tiger's Wife is "vivid and limber; a picaresque romp through the fragments of former Yugoslavia.
The Orange Prize Has Let Us Down
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THE PHYSICAL SCIENTIFIC The drive to make linguistics scientific flooded the literature with jawbreaking terms derived with new affixes of - ival, - eme, and allo - (adjectivals, phonemes and morphemes, allomorphs and allosemes).
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 2
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There is no epithet deficit when it comes to describing today's crisis of business leadership: greedy, unethical, and myopic appear regularly on the adjectival hot list.
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It is not ‘panaim’ but ‘panim’ and any verbal or adjectival relation to ‘panim’ is in the plural.
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