Did you know? -01

We can use an adjective in two ways:

When it adds quality to a noun/pronoun

He is a tall man.

That is called attributve use. It means you can place adjective before noun/pronoun it is adding quality to. 

And 

When it adds quality as a predicate 

He is tall

Can you write more examples?

Sounds silly but sometimes we are right and we doubt ourselves, so I will try writing these sily "Did you know?" posts...

Let's see if I can really write more often..

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  • Yep, I did know this... I'm into grammar. That's the reason Mary doesn't like me. Well, this and some other reasons. :-D 

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    • Sshhhh... she doesn't like southerners

    • Hmmmmm....will I also get killed for liking ketchup???? ;-)

  • Hi there !

    I'm going to write some examples ,if there is any mistake please correct. 

    Attribuative adjective

    1.The nice man called me again . 

    2. I'm fan of any successful woman.

    Predicative adjectives :

    1. You are so kind.

    2.the blog is useful

     

    Any comment ?: ))

     

    • Yup, usually an English sentence starts with  a capital letter and is terminated with a full stop.  :-)

    • peDanT :-P

    • Nah, not a peDanT nor anything of that sort, just a humble and amiable grammar gestapo! ;-)

       

  • Oi there, folks     

    It would be interesting to notice that the adjective standing right in front of the noun it modifies is called an attributive adjective:

    - A tall man was waiting for a taxi.

    - Expensive shoes are made of top quality leather.

      Adjectives that need a linking verb usually stand after the word they modify and are called predicative adjectives:

    The man waiting for the taxi was tall.

    - These shoes look expensive.

    Lol, hope I managed to add some more shades to the gray colour! ;-)

  • #1 When you see an old cool EC member who came back and wrote a blog:

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    #2 When you realise that the blog is about... GRAMMAR! 

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