when i read the book...
***NOT A TEACHER***dear teacher,
when i read the book, sometime i see the adj(adjective) after the Noun. but i usually use the adj before the Noun ????
please have me explain it ! thank you
***NOT A TEACHER***so thank you!
i have the sentence
the man asleep in the room is my brother. asleep is a adj but it is stay behind the noun??
please have me
***NOT A TEACHER***
(1) hitinvo, there are many words in English that CANNOT be put in front of a noun.
(2) Many of those words start with a- ("asleep" is one of those adjectives).
(3) Some books say that "The man asleep" = "The man who is asleep in the room is my brother."
(4) If you erase the words "who is," you can speak faster.
(5) You can also say, "The sleeping man in the room is my brother."
If you have any questions, many people here will be happy to help you at any time.
Thank you
dear teacher,
when i read the book, sometime i see the adj(adjective) after the Noun. but i usually use the adj before the Noun ????
please have me explain it ! thank you
Does that make the sentence a reduced relative clause then?
Do you mean something like this from Professor Quirk's book:Hi,
Thanks for asking that great question.
I'm also interested if there are any pairs noun-adjectives that have a different meaning when we change the order.
Cheers
Yes I meant something like that. I unfortunately don't have access to that book.Professor Quirk et al. discuss this in the "Syntactic functions of adjectives" section of their A COMPREHENSIVE GRAMMAR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
Thank you.
***NOT A TEACHER***Hi,
Yes I meant something like that. I unfortunately don't have access to that book.
I research the subject and that what I have so far.
(1)
The obvious one that comes after nouns to indicate the unit of meruremnts :
Deep, long, tall, wide, high, old, thick
(2)
That group comes only after nouns:
designate, elect, galore, incarnate, ablaze
(3)
That's the group of ajectives I'm most interested in :
conserned, involved, present, proper, responsible, opposite, visible
Could anyone help with enchanting the last list.
Cheers,
Relative pronouns are often omitted in English, e.g. "The book I bought today" means "The book which/that I bought today". When the pronoun refers to the subject of the sentence, it usually cannot be omitted because the meaning changes. "The man who is asleep in my room" cannot omit the pronoun "who" because the sentence will then read "The man is asleep in my room" which does not mean the same.What I'm more curious about is The Book. It should be that one special book to rule them all, a book of everything? And, as always, everbody knows about something that I'm unaware of. Poor me
Maybe hitinvo was reading the book "Paradise Lost" and wondered why the name of the book wasn't "Lost Paradise"
PS:Sorry in advance if I've been too much facetious.
I've looked at a number of links talking about post-positive adjectives, which is what it's called when the adjective comes after the noun.
This may be one of the better ones.
Wapedia - Wiki: Post-positive adjective