Attributive and Predicative

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Attributive adjective - Of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify.

Usage example: `red' is an attributive adjective in `a red apple'

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Predicative is an antonym for attributive.

Nearby Words: attribute, attribution, attributed, attributing, attributively

Predicative adjective - Of adjectives; relating to or occurring within the predicate of a sentence.

Usage example: `red' is a predicative adjective in `the apple is red'

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Attributive is an antonym for predicative.

Nearby Words: predicate, predication, predicated, predicant, predicating

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