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Interventizio Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Adverbs as adjectives

Can I generally use adverbs as adjectives?
Example: "The astray soul", meaning a man gone off the right path.
It would seem so, since we have phrases such as: "In the ABOVE example..."
  

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Interventizio Can I generally use adverbs as adjectives? No. " That is an unusual case.

— Mister Micawber

  • Interventizio Can I generally use adverbs as adjectives?
  • No.
  • " That is an unusual case.
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InterventizioCan I generally use adverbs as adjectives?
No.
InterventizioIt would seem so, since we have phrases such as: "In the ABOVE example..."
That is an unusual case.
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InterventizioIn the ABOVE example...
For some reason, people have been accepting this more and more. It really should be "In the example above" in my opinion. Likewise for 'below'. The general principle is that words with the Anglo-Saxon a- prefix are used only predicatively (He is asleep), not attributively (*The asleep man). So *t
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