A postpositive adjective or postnominal adjective is an adjective that is placed after the noun or pronoun that it modifies, as in noun phrases such as...

— Predicative adjective. b. I want something different. — Postpositive adjective. a. He is taller than you. — Predicative adjective. b. I met a person...

(predicative) Tell me something funny. (postpositive) The good, the bad, and the funny. (substantive) Adjective comes from Latin nōmen adjectīvum, a calque...

grammar, following a related word or phrase, as with a postpositive adjective Look up postpositive in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Postpositivism (international...

martial (plural courts-martial or courts martial, as "martial" is a postpositive adjective) is a military court or a trial conducted in such a court. A court-martial...

The phrase attorney general is composed of a noun followed by the postpositive adjective general and as other French compounds its plural form also appears...

restrictive in its use of postpositive position for adjectival units (words or phrases), making English use of postpositive adjectives—although not rare—much...

modify; for exceptions see postpositive adjective), as in the big house, or predicatively, as in the house is big. Certain adjectives are restricted to one...

nominalized adjective is an adjective that has undergone nominalization, and is thus used as a noun. In the rich and the poor, the adjectives rich and poor...

Sandefur have disagreed with this usage, saying that "general" is a postpositive adjective (which modifies the noun "solicitor"), and is not a title itself...

that express an adjectivally attributive meaning can be affixed to form adverbs, such as interestingly and excitedly. 2. In postpositive phrases. These...

"attorney general" is an example of a noun (attorney) followed by a postpositive adjective (general). "General" is a description of the type of attorney, not...

In linguistics, a privative adjective is an adjective which seems to exclude members of the extension of the noun which it modifies. For instance, "fake"...

orthography, the term proper adjective is used to mean adjectives that take initial capital letters, and common adjective to mean those that do not. For...

modifies (expresses an attribute of) a noun in the manner of an attributive adjective, rather than express an independent idea as a predicate. In English (and...

Spanish adjectives are similar to those in most other Indo-European languages. They are generally postpositive, and they agree in both gender and number...

nice folks). In some cases they are post-head (or postpositive) modifiers, with particular adjectives like galore (e.g., stories galore) or with certain...

or was said earlier. Demonstrative constructions include demonstrative adjectives or demonstrative determiners, which qualify nouns (as in Put that coat...

refer to them as possessive adjectives, though they do not have the same syntactic distribution as bona fide adjectives. Examples in English include...

cases. The original locative case had been replaced by four so-called postpositive cases, the inessive case, illative case, adessive case and allative case...

the Administration of Justice (Language) Act (Ireland) 1737. The postpositive adjectives in many legal noun phrases in English—attorney general, fee simple—are...

nouns or adjectives. (This is an example of a suprafix.) This process can be found in the case of several dozen verb-noun and verb-adjective pairs and...

intensive adverb in Great Britain. Intensives also can function as postpositive adjectives. An example in American English today is "the heck", e.g. "What...

whereas postpositive adjectives in names and titles are not (cf. the cultural organisation Matica srpska, with a small s in the adjective srpska ‘Serbian’)...

languages, single nouns use a postpositive definite article. However, in Danish, when a noun is modified by an adjective, a prepositive definite article...

nouns or adjectives in a sentence, which become predicate nouns and predicate adjectives. Copulae are thought to 'link' the predicate adjective or noun...

prop-word: one, as in "the blue one" A pro-adjective substitutes an adjective or a phrase that functions as an adjective: so as in "It is less so than we had...

a postpositive adverb that modifies the clause, "There is ..." By contrast, the third sentence contains "international" as a prepositive adjective that...

delivering the intersection of their denotations. One example is the English adjective "blue", whose intersectivity can be seen in the fact that being a "blue...

pronouns, there are also distributive determiners (also called distributive adjectives). The pronouns and determiners often have the same form: Each went his...