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Noun Form Adjective Form: The Sky Was

This document discusses how adjectives can be formed from nouns by adding suffixes. It provides examples of common noun to adjective transformations like "thing" becoming "thing" and "awe" becoming "awesome". The document also gives examples of adjectives being used in predicate complements to describe a subject like "the sky was spectacular" as well as adjectives modifying nouns like "a spectacular sky".

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Noun Form Adjective Form: The Sky Was

This document discusses how adjectives can be formed from nouns by adding suffixes. It provides examples of common noun to adjective transformations like "thing" becoming "thing" and "awe" becoming "awesome". The document also gives examples of adjectives being used in predicate complements to describe a subject like "the sky was spectacular" as well as adjectives modifying nouns like "a spectacular sky".

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Noun Form Adjective Form

NOUN WORD FORM

Some adjectives are formed from nouns and


others are formed from verbs. The word forms
are from Latin, Greek and other languages.
There is no simple rule for adding suffixes, but
there are common patterns.
PREDICATE COMPLEMENT

The sky was a spectacle.


th i n g

t o

(a

ve ry

be a ut i f ul

se e )

The sky was filled with colors.

The sunset was red.


We felt awe.

(a

fe e l in g

of

i ns p i ra t i on

a nd

res p ec t )

ADJECTIVE WORD FORM

Adding a suf
forming an a
the end of a
adjective is
seems (stati

fix to a noun form is


djective.
A suffix is
word to mark the wor
often used after It is
ve verbs).

PRED COMPLEMENT

MODIFIER TO NOUN

one way of
a part added to
d form. An
or It

It was spectacular.

It
was a spectacular sky.

It was colorful.

It was a colorful sky.

It looked reddish.

It was a reddish sky.

It was awesome.
It
was an awesome sight.

It + be + adjective (predicate adjective or predicate complement) See Specifying vs.


Ascriptive "be" .

NP noun phrase; N noun; Det determiner; AdjP adjective phrase; Adj adjective
Also see Noun Suffixes| Word Forms | Adverb Suffixes.

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