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...

something funny. (Postpositive) The good, the bad, and the funny. (Substantive) Clara Oswald died three times. (Quantitative) Adjective comes from Latin...

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

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

court-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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

"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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

pine (adj.) and linden (adj.).) Complex constructions are also usually postpositive: hodiny řízené rádiem – radio-controlled clock (clock controlled radio...

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"...

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

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 The original locative case had been replaced by four so-called postpositive cases, the inessive case, illative case, adessive case and allative case...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

been called possessive adjectives. However, modern linguists note that they behave more like determiners rather than true adjectives (see examples in the...