Frank Antonson
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Ah! This is SO like the good old days!
"The smoke is filtered over, under, around, and through many tiny fibers.
I was thinking the same thing. But then it entered my mind why we call certain relative clauses adjectival clauses when the class of adjectives is clearly a formal category, one of the eight word classes. Adjective is a word class and (noun) modifier is a functional label I can attach to it. Ist es richtig?
Agreed. If 'worth' is an adjective, why is this sentence ungrammatical?
Training dogs is worth. :cross:
I can't think of another(?) adjective that requires a complement for the sentence it sits in to be grammatical. At the moment I am more inclined to treat 'worth' as a preposition.
It is worth they. :cross: -- nominative pronoun
It is worth them. :tick: -- accusative
RNR, yes! Thanks!
What is one of them?
I can think of just one such adjective, "fond".
But it is important that if adjectives have complements at all, they are PPs not NPs. (In English.)