Your soup tastes bad. Write the position of adjective. (a)predicative , (b)attributive , (c)demonstrative (d)post-positioned
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An adjective comes either before or after the noun that it modifies. (She is a tall girl. She is quite tall for her age.) Most adjectives appear before a noun and they are called the attributive adjectives. Adjectives that come after the noun must follow a linking verb, and they are known as the predicative adjectives. Most adjectives can be in either position, but some adjectives use only one of these positions, either before the noun or after the noun.
Those adjectives that come immediately after the noun that they modify are called postpositive adjectives.
(1) Adjective that comes before a noun is called an attributive adjective
The attributive adjective modifies the noun that follows it. There can be more than one attributive adjective appearing side-by-side to modify the same noun.
Attributive adjectives (in bold) that come before a noun.
Examples:
a tropical fish
a leafless tree
a tight dress
a well-stocked shop
an expensive hotel
Examples:
Not everyone knows a giraffe has a long neck.
My second-hand car is the noisiest in the neighbourhood.
Will we have starry sky tonight?
He was found with a fractured skull.
We followed a narrow winding path through the forest.
More than one adjective can appear side-by-side to modify the same noun.
Examples:
an ugly old witch
a funny little clown
a tall young soldier
a loud distant sound
a cheap plastic doll
Some adjectives however are only attributive adjectives, which can only come immediately before a noun and not anywhere else in the sentence. These adjectives include the following: chief, elder, former, indoor, inner, main, mere, only, outdoor, outer, particular, principal, sole and upper. Using attributive adjectives as predicative adjectives will result in ungrammatical sentences.
Examples:
His elder sister is getting married to her elder brother.
(Not: Your sister elder is getting married to her brother elder.)
I met my former wife.
(Not: I met my wife who was former.)
Mike has a little dog.
(Not: Mike's dog is little.)
My main problem is money.
This pair of boots cost a mere thirty dollars.
The weather was the chief reason for calling off the rescue operation.
The witnesses were the principal source of information about the crime.
(2) Adjective that comes after a noun is called a predicative adjective
A predicative adjective in a sentence appears after a noun which is also the subject. The predicative adjective modifies the noun that comes before it. It acts as a predicate as it completes the meaning of the predicate in the sentence. The predicative adjective says something about the subject of the sentence. It may also be referred to as a predicate adjective. The predicative adjective does not appear immediately after the noun. The noun is usually followed by a linking verb be (am, is, are, was, were, appear, look, taste, etc). The predicative adjective comes after the linking verb and also acts as a complement.
· The girl looks happy.
In the sentence, looks is a linking verb. The word happy is an adjective which is also a complement. The adjective happy together with the verb looks completes the predicate of the sentence, and not surprisingly is called predicative adjective. A predicative adjective modifies the subject of the sentence.
We can make use of a predicative adjective when we do not want to place the adjective, which describes a noun, before the noun. We can say or write “The girl is happy”, instead of “The happy girl …….” In such arrangement, we use the linking verb (is) to join the predicative adjective (happy) to the subject (the girl).
The following examples show in bold the predicative adjectives and the preceding auxiliary verbs
Examples:
The duck soup is hot and spicy.
(Not: The hot and spicy duck soup.)
She was short, fat and beautiful.
That statues of goddesses are bronze and life-size.
The measurements were difficult but accurate.
The stranger looks scary.
The boss appears angry.
This milk tastes sour.
The question sounds silly.
I soon grew bored listening to his horror story.
The suspect remained silent when questioned.