| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
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| ADJECTIVE (n.), ADJECTIVAL (adj., n.), ADJECTIVALLY (adv.) |
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| An adjective is a part of speech that modifies nouns or other nominals: in clear water, forest primeval, happier days, and easy listening, clear, primeval, happier, and easy are adjectives, modifying the nouns water, forest, and days and the nominal listening, respectively. | 1 |
| Adjectival and adjectivally (not adjectively) are grammatical terms that have to do with the functions of adjectives: an adjectival (pronounced a-jek-TEI-vuhl) modifier is “a word, phrase, or clause that works like an adjective”: people in the car has an adjectival phrase (in construction it is a prepositional phrase), in the car, modifying the noun people. Similarly, The man who bought the car has an adjectival clause, who bought the car, modifying man. See MODIFIERS. | 2 |
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| | | The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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