adjectives modify nouns

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• modify — 01. In English, adjectives usually [modify] nouns. 02. Foreign cars sold in this country must undergo certain [modifications] in order to reduce the amount of pollution they produce. 03. The carpenter made some [modifications] to our cupboard, so …   Grammatical examples in English

• Japanese adjectives — According to many analyses[citation needed], the Japanese language does not have words that function as adjectives in a syntactic sense, i.e. tree diagrams of Japanese sentences can be constructed without employing adjective phrases. However,… …   Wikipedia

• Spanish nouns — The Spanish language has nouns that express concrete objects, groups and classes of objects, qualities, feelings and other abstractions. All nouns have a conventional grammatical gender. Countable nouns inflect for number (singular and plural).… …   Wikipedia

• Spanish adjectives — The Spanish language uses adjectives in a similar way to English and most other Indo European languages. Spanish adjectives usually go after the noun they modify, and they agree with what they refer to in terms of both number (singular/plural)… …   Wikipedia

• Tagalog grammar — This article describes the grammar of both Tagalog, and Filipino mdash; which is de facto based on Tagalog.Nouns (Pangngalan)While Tagalog nouns are not inflected, they are usually preceded by case markers. There are three types of case markers:… …   Wikipedia

• adjective — n. 1) to compare an adjective 2) an attributive; descriptive; possessive; predicate, predicative adjective 3) adjectives modify nouns * * * [ ædʒɪktɪv] descriptive possessive predicate predicative adjective an attributive to compare an adjective… …   Combinatory dictionary

• Korean descriptive verb — Korean descriptive verbs, like English adjectives, modify nouns. They may either be followed by nouns (the big book 큰 책) or be part of a subject predicate clause (the book is big 책이 커요). Categories: Grammar …   Wikipedia

• Adjective — Examples That s an interesting idea. (attributive) That idea is interesting. (predicative) Tell me something interesting. (postpositive) The good, the bad, and the ugly. (substantive) In grammar, an adjective is a describing word; the main… …   Wikipedia

• Burmese language — Burmese မြန်မာစာ (written Burmese) မြန်မာစကား (spoken Burmese) Pronunciation IPA:  …   Wikipedia

• Noun — For other uses, see Noun (disambiguation). Examples The cat sat on the mat. Please hand in your assignments by the end of the week. Cleanliness is next to Godliness. George Washington was the first president of the United States of America.… …   Wikipedia

• English compound — A compound is a word composed of more than one free morpheme.English compounds may be classified in several ways, such as the word classes or the semantic relationship of their components.Compound nounsMost English compound nouns are noun phrases …   Wikipedia