Adjectives

• 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 __

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