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Revision as of 11:01, 21 April 2017
- Semantic test:
- Adjectives refer to properties
- morphological test:
- Adjectives can combine with comparative and superlative markers (-er/-est, or more/most)
- Adjectives can combine with -ly to form an adverb
- syntactic test
- Adjectives can be between a determiner and a noun, i.e. in the environment ('attributive use'):\\ Det __ N (Pat read the __ book.)
- Adjectives can occur in the following copula ('linking') verbs ('predicative use'): They felt/seemed/sounded __