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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a regular adjective" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe adjectives that follow standard grammatical rules and do not have any special forms or irregularities.
Example: "In the sentence 'The tall building is impressive,' the word 'tall' is a regular adjective."
Alternatives: "a standard adjective" or "a typical adjective".
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The Latin epithet onustusa means "charged, load-carrying, burdened", and a regular adjective derived from onus, "burden" (the same word that gave the English onus).
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But it's taken a full year since the game's release for all the regular adjectives to be scattered by a truly surreal turn, a new way of framing the GTA experience: as terrorist recruitment propaganda.
And Mac, a handsome old-timer who has lived on Grand Street since long before Brooklyn became an adjective, is a regular at Clem's, a bar at the corner of Roebling Street.
Crucially, if de were really a regular verb in the contemporary V-DE construction, its ubiquitous combination with adjectives and verbs would be a mystery no matter how compounding is productive in Chinese.
One neatly brief clue from a regular US-based competitor ('Germany remediates defective beetles') nearly made it into the VHCs until I noticed that 'remediate' is only given in Chambers as an adjective, and a Shakespearean one at that.
Just a regular toothpick.
I'm a regular.
She's a regular.
A regular pickle.
Maintain a regular schedule.
Be a regular wolf.
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