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- adjective grammar Placed after another term in a phrase.
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Examples
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Yet, in the other instances, we find the word postposed to other nouns such as vinum and esvi, the latter term probably being another kind of sacred offering.
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This is a postposed adjective, quite often found in titles and proper names.
On plural adjectives DC 2010
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Adjectives, incidentally, can also be postposed for stylistic reasons, as in the old ruined house stood on the hillside vs the house, old, ruined, stood on the hillside.
On postpositions DC 2009
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Adjectives, incidentally, can also be postposed for stylistic reasons, as in the old ruined house stood on the hillside vs the house, old, ruined, stood on the hillside.
Archive 2009-04-01 DC 2009
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Certainly, maintaining the fiction that it is a preposition won't help them in the long run, as their understanding of English increases, and they begin to note the parallels between ago and other postposed adverbs.
On postpositions DC 2009
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Speakers began to perceive postposed *sa now as an agglutinated animate nominative suffix *-sa.
Sporadic phonetic changes in the Indo-European case system 2008
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But that difference is important, making the construction very different from the case of postposed adjectives.
Archive 2008-08-01 DC 2008
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But that difference is important, making the construction very different from the case of postposed adjectives.
On Team GB DC 2008
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Let's explore the nominative singular which should go back to the postposed deictic *-sa in MIE.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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Let's explore the nominative singular which should go back to the postposed deictic *-sa in MIE.
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