adjectives
Example Sentences
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Adjectives like “fat” and “ugly” have been removed from Roald Dahl.
From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2023
Adjectives like “quaffable” on tasting notes earn banishment to a dark corner.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 26, 2019
She drifted off the wall, unthinking, and found herself drifting with a host of other Adjectives.
From The Verge • Feb. 8, 2019
Adjectives modify nouns — they pick out a subset of a category that possesses a certain quality.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2018
Adjectives of one syllable usually take the short form but not invariably.
From Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses by Hamilton, Frederick W. (Frederick William)
