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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Where do you begin?
for example, in the sentence, "Some regard Jim Thorpe, an Oklahoma Indian, as the greatest all-around athlete America has yet produced."
it asks to find the adjectives within the sentence. The issue I'm having right now is when I come across multiple words that I believe are adjectives modifying a noun. However, I think "greatest all-around" modifies athlete, but from my understanding compound adjectives are hypenated, and I don't see greatest hypenated.
I guess the bigger question is, when you find a lot of ajectives in from of a noun or compound noun, what do you do?
Finally, what are all the adjectives for the above sentence? I get: Oklahoma -> Indian, greatest all-around -> althlete.
it asks to find the adjectives within the sentence. The issue I'm having right now is when I come across multiple words that I believe are adjectives modifying a noun. However, I think "greatest all-around" modifies athlete, but from my understanding compound adjectives are hypenated, and I don't see greatest hypenated.
I guess the bigger question is, when you find a lot of ajectives in from of a noun or compound noun, what do you do?
Finally, what are all the adjectives for the above sentence? I get: Oklahoma -> Indian, greatest all-around -> althlete.
Top answer
" You have correctly identified the words that are being used as adjectives in your sentence. What other task are you actually trying to accomplish here? Best wishes, Clive
- " You have correctly identified the words that are being used as adjectives in your sentence.
- What other task are you actually trying to accomplish here?
- Best wishes, Clive
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Hi,
for example, in the sentence, "Some regard Jim Thorpe, an Oklahoma Indian, as the greatest all-around athlete America has yet produced."
You have correctly identified the words that are being used as adjectives in your sentence.
What other task are you actually trying to accomplish here?
Best wishes, Clive
for example, in the sentence, "Some regard Jim Thorpe, an Oklahoma Indian, as the greatest all-around athlete America has yet produced."
You have correctly identified the words that are being used as adjectives in your sentence.
What other task are you actually trying to accomplish here?
Best wishes, Clive
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the exercise was to simply write down the adjectives. so what exactly is the deal with hyphenated adjectives? why isn't greatest included with all-around?
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Hi,
so what exactly is the deal with hyphenated adjectives? why isn't greatest included with all-around?
Some adjectives consist of a hyphenated phrase, eg all-around, nice-looking, blue-eyed.
Just because a hypenated adjective is used, it doesn't mean that every other adjective has to be attached to it by hyphens.
eg we say 'a tall blue-eyed m
so what exactly is the deal with hyphenated adjectives? why isn't greatest included with all-around?
Some adjectives consist of a hyphenated phrase, eg all-around, nice-looking, blue-eyed.
Just because a hypenated adjective is used, it doesn't mean that every other adjective has to be attached to it by hyphens.
eg we say 'a tall blue-eyed m
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Greatest is an adjective by itself. It is a superlative.
We often use hypens between two or more words to make a single-word adjective.
The sweet-smelling roses are in the vase.
Some people see the world through rose-colored glasses
She's a good-hearted woman
Republicans want a lean-and-mean government.
[EDIT] Clive is correct tha
We often use hypens between two or more words to make a single-word adjective.
The sweet-smelling roses are in the vase.
Some people see the world through rose-colored glasses
She's a good-hearted woman
Republicans want a lean-and-mean government.
[EDIT] Clive is correct tha
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