Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.
Trending News
What are these two kinds of adjectives called? The boy is cool. The cool boy is over there.?
1 Answer
- PontusLv 73 years agoFavorite Answer
I assume you are asking about "cool" in each sentence.
#1. predicate adjective (joined to the subject by a linking verb, like "be", "become", "turn", "get", "feel" etc.
#2. attributive adjective (directly modifying the noun).
Some grammarians classify THE under adjectives as well, as a determiner. Others classify determiners as their own part of speech (which makes more sense to me).
Under determiners, THE is an article (the definite article).
Source(s): studied linguistics and English grammar; four foreign languages (and taught one of them) - all of them have both types of adjectives. native English speaker