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ThaiUIlearner Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

modifier that tell the number of components in thing

how to grammatically explain why put 'ed' in the cases of counting components in thins like the followings :-

Four membered family / group / delegation.
  

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It is the past participle used as an adjective.

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It is the past participle used as an adjective.
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EnglishmavenIt is the past participle
... of the verb "to member"?

And in "six-legged bug" it's from the verb "to leg"?

Probably not.
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ThaiUIlearnerhow to grammatically explain How can we explain the grammar of ...
There is very little to explain except that nouns that refer to parts of things (usually parts of the body) sometimes take an -ed ending. These often occur preceded by numbers, and they form hyphenated adjectives.

two-head
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