Sentence examples for adjective of a from inspiring English sources

The phrase "adjective of a" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in a context where you are discussing the grammatical function of an adjective related to a noun, but it is not commonly phrased this way.
Example: "The adjective of a noun describes its qualities, such as 'blue' in 'blue sky.'"
Alternatives: "adjective for a" or "descriptive term for a".

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As he says it, I am thinking the same thing: of our culture's association of whiteness with innocence, of a child described without an accompanying adjective, of a child rendered insignificant and therefore invisible because of his or her particular shade of skin.

In this case, it is used to make an adjective of a word, Italian, that is already an adjective.

In the syntactic condition, acoustic adjectives were either semantically matching or mismatching to both noun and adjective of a given sentence of Task 1.

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Importantly, though, "Shoreditch" has sort of become an adjective of late, a shorthand for "feckless hipster gobshite".

Importantly, though, "Shoreditch" has sort of become an adjective of late, a shorthand for "feckless hipster gobshite" or "sunglasses indoors-wearer".

He formed expressive compound adjectives of a sort rejected by Augustan taste e.g., "the light-sleeping hearts of dogs," "forest-breaking winds".

According to his theory of value, value is not an adjective of the object but a feeling absolute, of which the object evaluated appears as an adjective, and his logic of alternation is a modern working out of the Jaina theories of anekantavada (non-absolutism) and syadvada (doctrine of "may be").

The Journal sometimes took to using the word "Democrat" as an adjective instead of a noun, a usage favored by the right wing.

The adjective "son of a bitch" in our country refers to a "bad person" according to the Dictionary of the Royal Academy of Spain.

Technically speaking, "new" is an inexact choice of adjective for a restaurant that opened in 1851.

France's rival clans of monarchists are a joke in a country where "republican" is an adjective of honour.

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