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A qualitative examination of sanctification: Sources and varieties of appraisals of sacredness. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Clin Health Psychol
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Adjectives and adjective phrases

2016
The category of adjectives consists of lexical items that characteristically represent properties of entities such as dimension, age, color, speed, etc. A full-fledged adjective phrase is typically composed of an adverb and an adjective. This chapter mainly deals with the modifying function of adjectives and adjective phrases.
Jing Jin, Shi-Zhe Huang, Dingxu Shi
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Nouns and Adjectives

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1967
Nouns designate "things" or abstractions. And adjectives limit nouns. This arrangement seems simple enough at the "see the red ball" level. However, when we consider the more complex subject of medical writing, we see that authors frequently misuse these parts of speech.
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The adjective. Comparison

1958
An adjective modifying a noun generally stands immediately before it, as in English.
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Adjectives and adverbs

2017
This chapter covers adjectives and adverbs and explores how both are used in English. It addresses adjectives that compare things and how some terms must employ different means to form a comparison. Conjunctive adverbs are introduced and assessed along with some commonly misused sentence starters and phrases.
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Adjective order and the recall of adjective-noun triples

Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1969
When a noun is modified by two adjectives there is typically a preferred ordering of those adjectives. The S s were given one study trial with a list of 30 nouns, each modified by two adjectives which normative data showed to be strongly ordered. The order in which the adjective pairs were actually presented for study was counterbalanced.
James E. Martin, Robert S. Lockhart
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The adjective phrase

2007
Besides adjectives proper, participles also function syntactically as adjectives. Adjectives used as predicate complements have an external argument which may raise to become the subject of a copula or the object of a transitive verb. Adjectives may take complements, although mostly they occur without one.
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