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NancyJosie Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Adjectives

Hi I'd like to know why to some adjectives you add an -ed and to others you don't, e.g.:

live animal, live stock

and

blue eyed girl or specied soup

Thanks.

Nancy
  

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What in the world is 'specied soup'? Adjectives can take many forms and have many suffixes ( allergic, amiable, restive, allegorical, Indian ). Some come from verbs ( running water, battered wife ).

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  • What in the world is 'specied soup'?
  • Adjectives can take many forms and have many suffixes ( allergic, amiable, restive, allegorical, Indian ).
  • Some come from verbs ( running water, battered wife ).
  • Some come from nouns ( blue-eyed girl, fashionable dress ).
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What in the world is 'specied soup'?

Adjectives can take many forms and have many suffixes (allergic, amiable, restive, allegorical, Indian). Some come from verbs (running water, battered wife). Some come from nouns (blue-eyed girl, fashionable dress).
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The ed suffix is added to nouns: a blue-eyed girl, a long-legged girl, a dark-haired girl.
But: spicy soup.

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