Re: Question about a grammatical term
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 3, 2002, 4:57 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> Another analysis of the examples which could be valid is to consider the first
> part of the compounds as an adjective, which qualifies thus the second noun.
> Since parts of speech in English have somewhat blurry frontiers, it could be
> valid.
Not really. You can't say, for example "A more water cooler" or "That
cooler is very water" or any other characteristics of adjectives. The
only characteristic they share with adjectives is modifying. I'd call
the first component a modifying noun.
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