Adjective
Is this a good example of a sentence with a reduplicative adjective?
Well, that’s sort of green, but it’s not a true green-green.
Top answer
The duplication often involves a change in some way to the repeated adjective, so a better example would be eg His shirt is greeny-green. Clive
- The duplication often involves a change in some way to the repeated adjective, so a better example would be eg His shirt is greeny-green.
- Clive
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The duplication often involves a change in some way to the repeated adjective, so a better example would be eg His shirt is greeny-green.
Clive
0Not really.
His drawer contained a hodge-podge of pencils, pens, erasers, chewing gum, paper clips and other desktop discards.
Modern cities grew higgledy-piggledy from their medieval centers.
What a fancy-dancy phone you have.
She is so hoity-toity that no one wants to talk to her.
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