(before noun or adjective)

  • 1before-tax — beˈfore tax adjective TAX relating to the amount that has been earned before tax is paid on it: • This accounted for 6% of their before tax income. • Their before tax profits rose sharply last year. * * * before tax UK US adjective [before noun]… …

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  • 2adjective — 1. general. The term adjective was itself an adjective for a hundred years before it became used as a noun for one of the parts of speech. Joseph Priestley, in The Rudiments of English Grammar (1761), was perhaps the first English grammarian to… …

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  • 3adjective —  A word that qualifies a noun or pronoun: a brick house, a small boy, a blue dress. Most adjectives have three forms: the positive (big), the comparative (bigger), and the superlative (biggest). Although adjectives are usually easy to recognize… …

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  • 4adjective. — screen|ing «SKREE nihng», noun. 1. a) an evaluation to determine acceptability or inclusion; testing. »After the terrorist bombings, luggage screening at airports increased greatly. b) medical diagnostic testing: »cancer screening; mental health… …

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  • 5Finnish language noun cases — Finnish nouns (including pronouns and numerals) as well as any modifying adjectives, superlatives or comparatives, can be declined by a large number of grammatical cases, which are detailed here. See also Finnish language grammar. TOC Finnish… …

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  • 6leg before wicket — adjective : having with any part of the person except the hand illegally stopped a bowled ball that would otherwise have hit the wicket to be out, leg before wicket to be clearly leg before wicket used of a batsman in cricket * * * leg before and …

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  • 7Possessive adjective — Examples Do you like my new dress? Please wash your hands. Her train leaves in an hour. English grammar series English grammar Contraction …

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  • 8Hungarian noun phrases — This page is about noun phrases in Hungarian grammar.yntaxThe order of elements in the noun phrase is always determiner, adjective, noun.Grammatical markingHungarian does not have grammatical gender or a grammatical distinction between animate… …

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  • 9Adjectival noun (Japanese) — An adjectival noun (Japanese: 形容動詞, keiyō dōshi , adjectival verb ) or sometimes just adjectival is a noun that functions as an adjective. This term is often used in analyses of the Japanese language to refer to members of the word class commonly …

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  • 10attributive adjective — n. adjective that comes before a noun and not after a copula verb, (Grammar) …

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