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Structures of Modification

This document discusses structures of modification where adjectives and adverbs function as heads. It outlines different types of modifiers that can modify adjectives and adverbs, including qualifiers, other adjectives/adverbs, nouns, verbs, and prepositional phrases. For adjectives, modifiers include qualifiers, adverbs, nouns, verbs in -ing or to-infinitive forms, other adjectives, and prepositional phrases. For adverbs, qualifiers, other adverbs, nouns, and prepositional phrases can serve as modifiers.

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Structures of Modification

This document discusses structures of modification where adjectives and adverbs function as heads. It outlines different types of modifiers that can modify adjectives and adverbs, including qualifiers, other adjectives/adverbs, nouns, verbs, and prepositional phrases. For adjectives, modifiers include qualifiers, adverbs, nouns, verbs in -ing or to-infinitive forms, other adjectives, and prepositional phrases. For adverbs, qualifiers, other adverbs, nouns, and prepositional phrases can serve as modifiers.

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Structures of Modification (Adjective and Adverb)

Adjective as Head
Adjectives that habitually modify a noun or verb also become the head of the structure of
modification.
a. Qualifier as Adjective Modifier
A word that modifies an adjective is called a qualifier. Words like very, rather, enough,
etc. are qualifiers.
Example: She is very pretty.
The sound was loud enough.
b. Adverb as Adjective Modifier
An adverb that modifies an adjective ends in (-ly)
Example: The widely famous (singer)
If an adjective comes after the linking verb, the adverb no longer modifies adjective.
The adjective functions as the modifier of the structure of complementation.
Example: The house seems clean everywhere.
Her voice always sounds perfect.
c. Noun as Adjective Modifier
In some special expressions, noun can modify adjective.
Example: stone cold (coffee) sea green (cloth)
d. Verb as Adjective Modifier
An adjective can e modified by a verb in present particle form (-ing) that usually
precedes the adjective, or by to-infinitive that follows the adjective.
Example: freezing cold hard to say
boiling hot good to see
e. Adjective as Adjective Modifier
In special expressions, an adjectiv e can modify another adjective.
Example: icy cold dark blue deathly pale
f. Prepositional Phrases as Adjective Modifier
Prepositional phrases that function as adjective modifiers usually follow the adjective.
Example: easy on the eyes good for nothing stronger than ever

Adverb as Head
There are four class words that can modify the adverb.
a. Qualifiers as Adverb Modifier
Example: very easily rather slowly happily enough
b. Adverb as Adverb Modifier
Example: far away sometimes below
c. Noun as Adverb Modifier
Example: a meter away some way up
d. Prepositional Phrases as Adverb Modifier
Example: away for a week behind in his work outside in the cold

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