Re: Adjectives, Adverbs, Ad...
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 16, 2004, 5:06 |
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Carsten Becker wrote:
> > In our modern modern usage, we restrict 'noun' to the first group
> only,
> > and simply call the second group adjectives.
>
> Could you please give examples for the second group?
Red, old, big, tall, small, fast, slow, smart, pretty, etc. In other
words, what we normally call "adjective". In languages like Greek and
Latin, it makes sense to classify nouns and adjectives together in one
category ("noun"), subdividing them into substantive nouns (modern
"noun") and adjective nouns (modern "adjective")
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