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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

Look up redux in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Redux is a postpositive adjective meaning 'brought back, restored' (from Latin reducere, 'to bring back')...

"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...

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

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

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

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

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...

A collateral adjective is an adjective that is identified with a particular noun in meaning, but that is not derived from that noun. For example, the...

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...

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"...

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...

arise from adjectives meaning one. For example, the indefinite articles in the Romance languages—e.g., un, una, une—derive from the Latin adjective unus. Partitive...

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...

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

semantic behavior. Commonly listed English parts of speech are noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, interjection, numeral, article...

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

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...