Question

Explain how nouns are used as an adjective noun. Give some examples.​

Answer 1

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➡English often uses nouns as adjectives - to modify other nouns. For example, a car that people drive in races is a race car. A car with extra power or speed is a sports car. Nouns that modify other nouns are called adjectival nouns or noun modifiers.

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➡Examples include the first word in each of the following pairs: part time, math teacher, faculty office, soccer ball, desktop computer, flower garden, backyard party, man hours, & table leg.

Examples include the first word in each of the following pairs: part time, math teacher, faculty office, soccer ball, desktop computer, flower garden, backyard party, man hours, & table leg.That being said, it’s a mistakes to talk about nouns used as adjectives, since nouns and adjectives are categories with a variety of functions. The most common function of adjectives is as modifier of a noun, as in happy person, or good life, and this is the function people usually mean when they talk about “nouns used as adjectives.” But adjectives has other functions as well, so this doesn’t really make sense. It’s like saying a cat functioning as a dog instead of as a pet. Cat and dog are categories of animals and pet is one possible function of those animals.

Examples include the first word in each of the following pairs: part time, math teacher, faculty office, soccer ball, desktop computer, flower garden, backyard party, man hours, & table leg.That being said, it’s a mistakes to talk about nouns used as adjectives, since nouns and adjectives are categories with a variety of functions. The most common function of adjectives is as modifier of a noun, as in happy person, or good life, and this is the function people usually mean when they talk about “nouns used as adjectives.” But adjectives has other functions as well, so this doesn’t really make sense. It’s like saying a cat functioning as a dog instead of as a pet. Cat and dog are categories of animals and pet is one possible function of those animals.What we have in these examples are nouns functioning as modifiers of nouns, not “functioning as adjectives.”