adjective
She uses a lot of adjectival phrases in her writing.
“Hispanic” is now applied in adjectival form to a vast and diverse ethnic group in the US.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Linguistics: parts of speech
abstract noun
adj
adjectivally
adjunct
adv
adverb
adverbial
article
common noun
concrete noun
conj
conjunction
connective
coordinating conjunction
count noun
countable noun
definite article
determiner
prep
relative pronoun

Examples of adjectival

adjectival
Expressions may have nominal, verbal and adjectival properties at the same time, albeit to different degrees.
Using this as a baseline, our analysis is restricted to adjectival heads, and of these, only in constructions that could possibly be modified by intensifiers.
Unlike with plain adjectival complements, where such an interpretation cannot lead to morphosyntactic or event-structural reanalysis, with adjectival passive participles it can and does.
In the type coercion analysis, the development of inchoative get begins when motion get simply starts taking adjectival complements.
On the other hand, adjectival clauses cannot be so embedded, even when the predicate takes the -te form.
For instance, there are adjectival meanings that foreground content structures.
These analyses cannot account for the exclusion of specifically pre-nominal adjectival forms from the compound determinative construction.
The requirement for definite concord can, in turn, be directly stated on adjectival types.
That is, the include-in restriction is associated with phrases consisting of an adjectival head daughter and a definite non-head-daughter.
Unambiguously verbal interpretations, in which the passive participle is incompatible with an adjectival reading, are restricted to cases with perfective aspect.
For the short ambiguous passives, both adjectival and verbal interpretations were treated as correct.
Other facts regarding ne-cl with adjectival predicates should be mentioned.
Given that locatives and adjectival predicates are states, it might seem unsurprising that they should yield mixed results in ne-cl.
In addition, as is the case with verbal predicates, adjectival predicates exhibit various degrees of compatibility with the existential reading.
The possessive adjective also takes distinctively adjectival morphology.
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