AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Adjectives are usually placed before the nouns they modify, but when used with linking verbs, such as forms of to be or “sense” verbs, they are placed after the verb. The latter type of adjective is called a predicative adjective.

Detailed explanation-2: -Syntactically, adjectives can be classified with respect to three features: function, complementation and alternation. 1. Function: adjectives can appear in attributive position, as noun modifiers inside NP (32), or in predicative position as a complement of a verb like be, seem, consider, etc.

Detailed explanation-3: -noun. /ˈsɪntæks/ [uncountable] 1(linguistics) the way that words and phrases are put together to form sentences in a language; the rules of grammar for this compare morphology.

Detailed explanation-4: -The names of persons, places, or things are known as nouns in English, whereas adjectives describe a noun. But in some case, a noun is used to describe another noun. For example, ‘race’ in ‘racehorse’ would become the adjective. In such cases, the first noun acts as an adjective.