Although descriptive adjectives in Gothic ( as well as superlatives ending in "-ist " and "-ost " ) and the past participle may take both definite and indefinite forms, some adjectival words are restricted to one variant.
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Although Prosobranchia is no longer generally accepted as a taxon by people who study living Mollusca, still the term "'prosobranch "'is legitimately used as an anatomically descriptive adjective or noun, and the taxon Prosobranchia is still sometimes used by paleontologists.
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Thus, removing all of the descriptive adjectives and adverbs, this sentence boils down to " Sound is screams . " ( I am not sure, but I think this is called an appositive ? ) Anyway . . . clearly, " sound " is singular and " screams " is plural and " is " is singular.
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As for the Sept . 11 attack, " I don't have the descriptive adjectives to use _ and you couldn't print them if I did _ to describe how I feel, " said Hughes, 79, of Grand Prairie, Texas, the webmaster for the USS Utah Association's Internet site.
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For some types of statistics, this value may be accompanied with a descriptive adjective, sometimes called a " specialisation " or " aspect ", that either describes how the character developed that particular score or an affinity for a particular use of that statistic ( like " Specialisations " in " Ars Magica " or " Attribute Aspects " in " Aria " ).
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Not helpful and we're now down to shades of meaning that are debatable and don't matter, but I think " village " is a better word than " hamlet . " People in the U . S . who live in places with populations of, say, less than a thousand, usually call them " towns " with some descriptive adjective or phrase ( " tiny little town, just a bend in the road . " ).
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In a February 2011 book review for the " Wall Street Journal ", Moynihan provided evidence that British author Dominic Sandbrook was guilty of " [ r ] ecycling the phrasing, the descriptive adjectives, the reportorial detail of other historians in other words, ignoring the codes and courtesies of historical scholarship . " The next year, Moynihan told the " New York Observer " that he had been surprised to see Sandbrook's book " published in paperback with no corrections ."
