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Can we use adjective in plural form?
No, adjectives in English do not take the plural ending. Having said that, word categories are quite fluid in English, and some adjectives may be used as nouns, in which case (if they are count nouns) they will pluralise like any other noun.
Can a noun also be an adjective?
English often uses nouns as adjectives – to modify other nouns. For example, a car that people drive in races is a race car. A car with extra power or speed is a sports car. Nouns that modify other nouns are called adjectival nouns or noun modifiers.
What happens with the adjectives when you are describing a plural noun?
Adjective Agreement This means that if the noun an adjective describes is feminine, the adjective must be feminine, and if that same noun is also plural, the adjective will be feminine AND plural as well.
Can adjective be singular and plural?
Adjectives don’t have a singular and plural form OR a masculine, feminine and neutral form. Adjectives are always the same! Never add a final –s to an adjective. Adjectives can also be placed at the end of a sentence if they describe the subject of a sentence.
Can an adjective be used without a noun?
Adjectives are often used without nouns. The structure the + adjective is used to talk about some well-known groups of people. Examples are: the blind, the deaf, the unemployed, the rich, the poor, the young, the old, the dead etc.
Can you have an adjective without a noun?
Can be nouns or adjectives?
Sometimes we use a noun to describe another noun. In that case, the first noun “acts as” an adjective….Noun as Adjective.
| adjective | noun |
|---|---|
| black | horse |
What is an example of a plural form of an adjective?
There is also a general tendency for nouns that are usually plural to remain in the plural form when acting as adjectives, as in these examples: Sports medicine (The plural noun, sports, is more common than the singular noun, sport .) Media frenzy ( Media is plural.
Can compound nouns have adjectives?
In your examples compound nouns are created using “Noun + noun”. So in Salary tax, product demo or office supplies, there is no presence of adjectives. All are noun. And an adjective can never be singular or plural.
Is salaries tax singular or plural form?
In the above cases, the word “Salary” is used as an adjective to describe the type of “tax”, so it will be in singular form. But I saw people using salaries tax and not sure if it is grammatical. So my question is if there are any general rules on how to use the singular/plural form of an adjective? grammatical-numberattributive-nouns Share
Is the plural of liver singular or plural?
The singular form, medium, is rarely used.) Again, there are probably exceptions. And while nouns that refer to animals are usually singular when acting as adjectives (goose liver, dog food, rat race), sometimes the plural is the preferred form (calves liver).