SoSe15: Term paper project: Predicative and Attributive Adjectives: Difference between revisions

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+- Rachel is a former waitress
+- Rachel is a former waitress
-+ Joey feels faint
-+ Joey feels faint
|| Health status  
|| Faint describes a health status and therefore it is a predicative adjective
-+ Chandler was very hungry after work
-+ Chandler was very hungry after work
+- Monica wears a summer dress
+- Monica wears a summer dress

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Participants

  • Ekram Aghdoube
  • Hana Hashi

Short description of the project

Produced material

Task 1

Look at the following sentences and decide, whether the adjectives are used attributively or predicatively.


attributive predicative
Phoebe is pregnant with twins
Rachel is a former waitress
Joey feels faint
Chandler was very hungry after work
Monica wears a summer dress
Ross buys a 30-inch-long monkey






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