Attributive Adjective

It's any qualifying adjective that qualifies (directly) a noun.

She's a beautiful girl: "beautiful" is attribute of "girl". "We were lying on the hot sand": "hot" is attribute of "sand", etc...

Thanks a lot, Pieanne.

"Attributive" and "predicative" are terms used in grammar to indicate the position of an adjective in a noun phrase. An attributive adjective is one that premodifies a noun (as in "the beautiful girl"). A predicative adjective is one that is used as postmodifier of a noun ("the stars visible").

Attributive adjectives are associated with "permanence", they state in general a per

Thanks for explaining the difference between attributive and predicative adjectives, Miriam.

I'm afraid I disagree with Miriam.

Predicative means 'of the predicate'. The predicate of a sentence is the part that describes the state of the subject. For example, in the sentence 'He is sporty', "He" is the subject, "is sporty" is the predicate. Therefore a predicative adjective describes, just like the word "sporty" here, what kind of subject we are talking about.

That is why this is such a dynamic forum. I consider many of you “authorities” of English, yet there obviously is a difference of opinions concerning certain aspects of the subject, which is completely understandable to me. We learned this language from different places and by different teachers who also had gone through the same experience. As a result, different interpretations may cau

Could you show me the adjectives that are restricted only to either predicative position or attributive position?

The only ones that come to mind are the a- adjectives which are restricted to the predicative position.

asleep, awake

CJ

one adj restricted to attributive position that comes to my mind is former: my former college-correct/ (the college is former-incorrect)

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