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adjectival syntax. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Hence the long-winded adjectival clause I have used. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
They are called PARTICIPLES, and being adjectival, take. From Wordnik.com. [The Esperanto Teacher A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians] Reference
But as it turns out, the adjectival form is totally fine there. From Wordnik.com. [2009 June « Motivated Grammar] Reference
He says that the second sentence involves adjectival predication. From Wordnik.com. [Determinates vs. Determinables] Reference
His sly adjectival prose creates an extraordinary surface effect. From Wordnik.com. [Off-Centaur] Reference
When did “nice” become an adjectival replacement for “very?”. From Wordnik.com. [June 2007] Reference
Its plural is catachreses, its adjectival forms catachrestic and catachrestical. From Wordnik.com. [Catachresis and the amusing, awful and artificial cathedral] Reference
The adjectival form is archaically expressed by a second and abstract substantive. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference
The verbose, adjectival outpourings of abundant vocabulary are unmistakeably London. From Wordnik.com. [Essays] Reference
“Do Finite Individuals possess a substantive or an adjectival mode of being?”, in. From Wordnik.com. [My Recycled Soul] Reference
In fact, the OED notes that the adjectival form of fast came from the adverbial form!. From Wordnik.com. [2009 June « Motivated Grammar] Reference
It is granted all around that when ˜F™ is adjectival, different Gs may be the same F. From Wordnik.com. [Relative Identity] Reference
One possibility, though speculative, is that “attaching” refers to adjectival predication. From Wordnik.com. [Mohist Canons] Reference
The president isn't alone in his adjectival aversion to "Democratic" when it comes to the party. From Wordnik.com. [November 2006] Reference
We need to take it one step further and show that verbal staunch (and adjectival stanch) are okay. From Wordnik.com. [2009 April « Motivated Grammar] Reference
If there is anyone who legitimately deserves to wear the adjectival crown of "mavericky" it is Rand. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Shermer: The Real Rogue Warrior: Ayn Rand, Not Sarah Palin] Reference
If there is anyone who legitimately deserves to wear the adjectival crown of \ "mavericky\" it is Rand. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Shermer: The Real Rogue Warrior: Ayn Rand, Not Sarah Palin] Reference
The article must not be employed before a noun used after a preposition in an adjectival capacity, as. From Wordnik.com. [Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.)] Reference
Solicitate has a standard adjectival use; it is only its unnecessary use as a verb that I advise against. From Wordnik.com. [April « 2009 « Sentence first] Reference
But this adjectival mania is still our dominant mode, and Netherland is its most masterful recent example. From Wordnik.com. [Two Paths for the Novel] Reference
Hence please use the proper adjectival form “Democratic” in a phrase such as “Democratic opponent.”. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Ungovernable] Reference
It is not ‘panaim’ but ‘panim’ and any verbal or adjectival relation to ‘panim’ is in the plural. From Wordnik.com. [essential reading] Reference
That is, is talk of bodies fundamentally to be construed for Spinoza as predicative or adjectival on substance?. From Wordnik.com. [Spinoza's Physical Theory] Reference
The adjectival form of the name is, however, suspicious, and may be a corruption far removed from what Ovid wrote. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference
Every musical term, adjectival, substantival, occurs to us as we read the thousand and odd pages of the two volumes. From Wordnik.com. [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference
There was little need for them, since almost any adjectival meaning could be arrived at by adding — FUL to a noun-verb. From Wordnik.com. [Nineteen Eighty-four] Reference
For the former thesmos was the technical term for a written statute, occasionally in the adjectival formation ta thesmia. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
There are no explanatory captions: instead, Phillips has written alphabetical accompanying notes, each of them adjectival. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Thing; The Concise Dictionary of Dress] Reference
Bryan, "most" modifies "imperfectly" in that sentence; it isn't working as part of an adjectival phrase "most imperfectly". From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize-Winner Makes Intermediate Error, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Contact Tim at French Country Wines for more info: [email protected] de guingois (deuh-gehn-gwah) adverbial and adjectival phrase. From Wordnik.com. [French Word-A-Day:] Reference
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