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adjective pronoun

Language; General language

A pronoun that is being used as an adjective to modify either a noun or another pronoun.

adjunct

Language; General language

A part of a phrase or clause that can be removed without the phrase or clause losing its sense.

adnominal

Language; General language

A word or phrase that modifies a noun and forms part of a noun phrase.

adnominal adjunct

Language; General language

Any optional word, phrase, or clause that modifies nouns, noun phrases, or pronouns.

adnominatio

Language; General language

Treating someone's proper name as if it were an attribute of the person.

adnoun

Language; General language

An adjective that is being used as a noun.

adposition

Language; General language

A term used to refer collectively to prepositions, postpositions, ambipositions, and circumpositions.

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