Sentence examples for adjective it is from inspiring English sources

Female is an adjective; it is not a noun.

When the -ing form of a verb is used as an adjective, it is a participle; when used as a noun, it is a gerund.

If you need to use an adjective, it is female and not "woman" in such phrases as female bishops, female MPs, female president.

For him "post-communist" is not just an adjective, it is a political structure, involving fragile political institutions, weak parties, and an economy in which the old elite, and its lucrative and powerful cartels and monopolies, is entrenched.

Carmen Callil Andrew O'Hagan's Be Near Me (Faber), the story of a troubled priest in our troubled times, is beautiful, an adjective it is usually dangerous to use in describing a novel, particularly when its setting is decayed industrial Ayrshire.

Be careful with spelling out numbers above one hundred — if the number is used as an adjective, it is completely hyphenated, since all compound adjectives are hyphenated ( This is the one-hundredth episode. ).

True to its knowing title (definitely the noun rather than the adjective), it's a handsome metal box filled with music, text, illustrations and even a sample of King and Gill's intermingled blood.

According to The Times's stylebook, as an adjective it's always "blond". 5. Uploading refers to posting something online; this video was probably uploaded once, or maybe a few times to different sites.

As an adjective it was used in the manner "Of, composed of, or relating to military partisans; of or relating to irregular or guerrilla warfare".

As with other adjectives, it is declined into the appropriate case (see Declension below) to match its associated noun, person and number.

Ben Yagoda, the author of "When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It," is with the right-thinking folks in the middle.