LIN204H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Linking Verb, Language Change, Paleozoic
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A modifier is to differentiate one member from others of the same class. A noun-like word bathroom can modify a noun sink- a bathroom sink. A participle phrase: the dog barking in the yard. A prepositional phrase: a bottle of wine. If not ib (inflection), it can be used with comparative or superlative using more and most. Frame sentence: the ------ man seems very -------- It may sound odd but it tests the ability of function in both positions. The first position: adjacent to the noun: attributive. The second position: follows the linking verb: predicative position. Can it can be qualified rather/very/ quite/really/too blue. Place it on a scale of intensity that we imply with a qualifier or when we use the comparative or superlative. Cannot be more or less intense, and cannot be qualified or used in the comparative or superlative. Ex) nuclear reactor, dead, vertical, mortal, eternal, endless, hydrochloric, paleozoic. Has adjectival morphemes but none of others.
