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Thein lwin Posted 11 years ago
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I'd like to know different types of adjectives after noun.Thanks a lot.
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htm : - a preposition with a further nominal group (a prepositional phrase): the boy in the garden . ; - a non-finite clause: the boy walking down the road . ; - a dependent clause which may be introduced by a relative pronoun or simply attached directly to the nominal it modifies: the who was walking .
- htm : - a preposition with a further nominal group (a prepositional phrase): the boy in the garden .
- ; - a non-finite clause: the boy walking down the road .
- ; - a dependent clause which may be introduced by a relative pronoun or simply attached directly to the nominal it modifies: the who was walking .
- ; - occasionally, an adjective: .
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They are called postmodifiers, and "adjective" is one of four types:
http://grammar.about.com/od/pq/g/Postmodifier.htm:
- a preposition with a further nominal group (a prepositional phrase): the boy in the garden . . .;
- a non-finite clause: the boy walking down the road . . .;
- a
http://grammar.about.com/od/pq/g/Postmodifier.htm:
- a preposition with a further nominal group (a prepositional phrase): the boy in the garden . . .;
- a non-finite clause: the boy walking down the road . . .;
- a
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thein lwindifferent types of adjectives after nounThere aren't enough examples to categorize them into types.
Adjectives occur almost exclusively before nouns, not after them. There are only a few exceptions, like matters political, which are usually literary or journalistic, and even then, the 'normal' form is with the adjective first (po
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