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A study of Adjective and adjectival phrase

August 2012

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Mustansiriyah University

ABSRACT Adjectives, in fact, are words such as tall, round, happy, etc that describe nouns (persons or a things ) in sentences. The term adjective is a problematic faces Iraqi SELL students since its form is complicated in most of cases , some adjectives have one word which are called simple adjectives others are of more than one word which are called compound adjectives. However, linguists today distinguish determiners from adjectives, considering them to be two parts of speech, but traditionally; determiners were considered adjectives in some of their uses. Adjectives act as a head of adjective phrase , the syntactic role of adjective in adjectival phrase is attributive and predicative . Generally speaking, adjectives have different forms in English, they can be nouns present and past participle etc. In addition, most of adjectives have comparative and superlative forms. F inally, this study has found that Iraqi ELL tend to use limited number of adjectives like big, beautiful, nice ect. Simple adjectives are very common more than 4 compound ones. In addition to, adjectives are invariable in English and do not agree with nouns in number and gender with exception of the adjective beautiful. This study has also ended with some recommendations.

The Placement of Adjectives in Pashto with Regard to their Change in Meaning

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This paper examines Pashto adjectives to delineate their placement and order with respect to their morphological change and modification of meaning. The aim of this paper is to address the occurrence of Pashto adjectives at the initial, middle, and final positions at the sentence level. Furthermore, the main focus in these occurrences is to find the prenominal initial, prenominal middle, postnominal middle, and final positions of Pashto adjectives at the sentence level. For doing this, the researchers collected data from native speakers and focused on adjectives and their use in sentences. They also read different written materials and found adjectives at various positions. The finding of the study showed that three adjective orders are correct and normal in Pashto, including prenominal initial, prenominal middle, and postnominal medial adjective orders. The results also showed that the postnominal position of an adjective is rarely found in spoken, but not in written at the final position of a sentence. In addition to it, the postnominal adjective of Pashto brings emphasis to the sentence, causes incorrect syntactic order, and also affects the meaning of the sentence.

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