And the noun can be used attributively : " Lorraine cross " . talk ) 00 : 08, 26 September 2009 ( UTC)
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This is true whether they are used attributively ('the long road') or predicatively ('the road is long').
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I always thought the passive participle ( ie . past participle passive ) had adjectival force in many circumstances, and could be used attributively and predicatively.
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The first element in each combination is a noun used " attributively " _ in front of another noun, modifying it as an adjective would.
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Verbal nouns can be used as verbs by appending ( e . g . ), while an adjectival noun uses instead of ( usual for nouns ) when acting attributively.
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There is a cross-linguistic tendency for words used attributively to lose grammatical marking ( apart from those showing agreement with the head word, in languages with agreement ).
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The noun can be used attributively to do the work of an adjective : Robert Southey in 1812 denounced " the venom and the virulence of the demagogue journalists ."
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As regards hyphenation, English is more likely to hyphenate compounds used attributively ( " a spick-and-span kitchen " ) than predicatively ( " the kitchen was spick and span " ).
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"' World "'can also be used attributively, to mean'global','relating to the whole world', forming usages such as world community or world canonical texts.
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For example, the noun " knee " can be said to be used substantively in " my knee hurts ", but attributively in " the patient needed knee replacement ".
