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Old 19-Mar-2006, 04:29
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Default Are you talented enough to diagram this sentence?

What part of speech is pretty in the following sentence?

The flower is pretty.

Is pretty an adjective? I believe it is but may be wrong, can you help me? If so, is it a special kind of adjective with a specific name?
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It's an adjective. If you like, you could call it a predicative adjective:
http://www.usingenglish.com/glossary...adjective.html
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could you write:

"The flower is pretty pretty."

Then pretty would be used as an adverb followed by the predicative adjective?
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You could if you wanted to.
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