The phrase "adjective to the" is not a standard or commonly used expression in written English.
It may be used in specific contexts related to grammar or linguistics when discussing the function of adjectives in a sentence.
Example: "In the phrase 'the tall building,' 'tall' is the adjective to the noun 'building.'"
Alternatives: "modifier of the" or "descriptive term for the".
The government of Prime Minister Tony Blair applied its favorite populist adjective to the institution, saying it should become a "people's opera".
Connect this adjective to the noun "country" and the phrase looks like a winner in a nation that hasn't been fully empowered as a state.
Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, brought this bureaucratese down to earth with "new technology requires new thinking about when a threat actually becomes 'imminent".' Did Bush ever apply that adjective to the threat posed by Saddam Hussein?
Back in 1971, when I finally decided on Stepford as the name of the Connecticut town I was about to populate with feminist wives and chauvinist husbands, I had no idea that I would be adding an adjective to the language.
Add another adjective to the list: inspiring.
In effect, the determiner is working as a particle that is carrying syntactic information that is helping to glue the adjective to the noun it modifies.
The Lost Messiah.By John Freely.Viking; 275 pages; £20THE practice of Judaism has given two adjectives to the English language, with meanings that collide interestingly.
He said, however, that the need to assign adjectives to the word "planet" might mean it was time to retire the term altogether.
I'm too amped up, meanwhile, to go up and down the roster, applying adjectives to the lumberjacks, as I'd promised.
Even when writing a short story there is a tendency to discount embellishments, to feel that filigree writing does not belong: Leave the metaphors and symbols, the images and adjectives, to the poets and the composers of the Sunday supplements.
It also connects particular word classes (content words, especially adjectives) to the activities, as part of an analysis of Field, indicating an understanding that as the Field changed from one school visit to the next, the content words changed.
