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Adjectival in a sentence
Adjectival meaning
- Of or relating to or functioning as an adjective.
- Of or relating to procedure, especially to technicalities thereof.
Synonyms of Adjectival
Using Adjectival
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or relating to or functioning as an adjective. | Of or relating to procedure, especially to technicalities thereof.
- Useful related words include: adjective, major form class.
- In the example corpus, adjectival often appears in combinations such as: the adjectival, adjectival form, an adjectival.
Context around Adjectival
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 7 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Adjectival
- In this selection, "adjectival" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, nominal, addition, normal, form, suffix and modifiers stand out and add context to how "adjectival" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include with the adjectival suffix a and adding an adjectival suffix usually. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "adjectival" sits close to words such as abenaki, adria and afn, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with adjectival
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Adjectival modifiers usually come before noun adjuncts. (7 words)
Adjectives and adjectival pronouns agree with nouns in number and gender. (11 words)
Linked through an adjectival form *venes-no-: William W. Skeat ibid. (11 words)
Here that is the determiner, rather attractive and young are adjectival pre-modifiers, college is a noun adjunct, student is the noun serving as the head of the phrase, and to whom you were talking is a post-modifier (a relative clause in this case). (45 words)
Because early has both adverbial and adjectival senses, its hyphenation can attract attention; some editors, due to comparison with advanced-stage disease and adult-onset disease, like the parallelism of early-stage disease and early-onset disease. (37 words)
In adjectival use, it means "of or relating to the United States"; for example, " Elvis Presley was an American singer" or "the man prefers American English ". (26 words)
Example sentences (20)
Adjectival modifiers usually come before noun adjuncts.
Adjectival participles The basic principle of the participles may be illustrated with the verb fali (to fall).
Adjectival phrases clothes free and clothing free prescribe where naturism is permitted in an otherwise textile environment, or define the preferred state of a naturist.
Adjectives and adjectival pronouns agree with nouns in number and gender.
Because early has both adverbial and adjectival senses, its hyphenation can attract attention; some editors, due to comparison with advanced-stage disease and adult-onset disease, like the parallelism of early-stage disease and early-onset disease.
Each root word has an inherent part of speech : nominal, adjectival, verbal, or adverbial.
Here that is the determiner, rather attractive and young are adjectival pre-modifiers, college is a noun adjunct, student is the noun serving as the head of the phrase, and to whom you were talking is a post-modifier (a relative clause in this case).
In addition, adjectival roots can be turned into stative verbs: La ĉielo bluas.
In addition, the adjectival form, where one exists, is usually lowercased (thus parkinsonian although Parkinson disease and gram-positive although Gram staining ).
In adjectival use, it means "of or relating to the United States"; for example, " Elvis Presley was an American singer" or "the man prefers American English ".
In Australia and internationally, Aussie means Australian (person or thing), as opposed to Australia (the country.) The normal adjectival usage is also used in New Zealand.
In Latin, most nomina were formed by adding an adjectival suffix, usually -ius, to the stem of an existing word or name.
In Syriac Aramaic Nasrath (ܢܨܪܬ) is used for Nazareth, while "Nazarenes" (Acts 24:5) and "of Nazareth" are both Nasrani or Nasraya (ܕܢܨܪܝܐ) an adjectival form.
It is the collective form which is more basic, and it is used as an adjectival modifier, e.g. cig moch ("pig meat", "pork").
Linked through an adjectival form *venes-no-: William W. Skeat ibid.
Loprieno (2005) p. 2147 Verbs and nouns are negated by the particle n, but nn is used for adverbial and adjectival sentences.
More rarely also spelt "Latène" (especially in French adjectival forms) or "La-Tène".
Nominal or verbal roots may likewise be modified with the adjectival suffix ‑a: reĝa (royal), from the nominal root reĝo (a king); parola (spoken).
Notice the order of the pre-modifiers; the determiner that must come first and the noun adjunct college must come after the adjectival modifiers.
Possessive adjectives are formed with the adjectival suffix -a: mia (my), ĝia (its), nia (our).
Common combinations with adjectival
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the adjectival 9×
- adjectival form 9×
- an adjectival 5×
- and adjectival 4×
- adjectival suffix 3×
- adjectival modifiers 2×
- adjectival phrases 2×
- in adjectival 2×
- adjectival use 2×
- normal adjectival 2×