ADJ n
ADJ n
The adjective is followed by a noun. Adjectives in this pattern are sometimes called attributive adjectives.| Adjective | noun | |
|---|---|---|
| the | alleged | criminals |
| a very | narrow | escape |
| electronic | games | |
| musical | instruments |
Most adjectives are sometimes found in the pattern ADJ n. We list below those adjectives among the 500 most frequent adjectives which, in the senses shown, are always or usually found in the pattern ADJ n rather than in the pattern v-link ADJ. In general, ungraded adjectives, or ungraded senses of adjectives, are more usually found in the pattern ADJ n than in the pattern v-link ADJ.absolute academic active actual acute adult agricultural alleged allied alternative ancient annual anxious apparent automatic average awful bad big bitter black blind blue brief bright brilliant broad BROKEN! busy careful Catholic certain cheap chemical chief civil civilian classic classical clean clear clever close cold collective coloured comfortable commercial common communist complete complex comprehensive concrete conscious considerable constant constitutional conventional cool correct creative criminal critical cultural current daily dark dead decent deep democratic different direct dirty distant domestic double dramatic dry due earlier early easy educational effective electoral electric electronic emotional empty enormous environmental equal ethnic exclusive external extraordinary extreme fair false far fast fat favourite federal female final financial fine firm flat foreign formal former free fresh front full fun fundamental further future gay general genuine giant golden good grand great greater green guilty happy hard healthy heavy high higher historic historical holy hostile hot human ideal ill illegal immediate impossible independent individual initial innocent intellectual interim internal international joint junior keen key large late later left legal liberal light likely little live local long loose low lucky major male massive maximum medical mental mere middle military minimum minor mobile modest monetary monthly moral more musical naked narrow national native near nearby necessary nervous net new northern nuclear occasional odd official old only open opposite ordinary other outside outstanding overall overseas parliamentary particular past peaceful permanent plain poor popular positive possible potential powerful practical pregnant present previous primary prime principal private professional proper proud psychological public pure quick quiet racial radical rapid rare raw ready real recent red regional regular relative remote responsible rich right romantic rough royal rural sad safe scientific secondary secret senior sensible sensitive separate serious sexual sharp sheer short significant silent simple single slight small smart social socialist soft solid sorry sound southern specific standard straight strange strict strong subject subsequent sudden sufficient super sure technical teenage terrible thick thin tight top total tough traditional tremendous true ultimate underground unfair unhappy universal upper urban various vast very Victorian violent voluntary warm weekly western wet white whole wide wild willing wooden worldwide wrong young
We used to grumble that we were wasting time learning a dead language.
He was a fair boss, he was a good friend and taught me a tremendous amount.
As a child I had a really hot temper. But I found that only gave me trouble.
We have a moral duty to help others.
Often he would see her smiling at him, as if sharing a private joke.
I hope you have a safe journey to Richard's and back.
Should the big urban areas, such as London, have city-wide councils?
I don't want to make the wrong decision and regret it later.