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bn:00055488n

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Categories: Syntactic categories, Descriptive technique

modifier qualifier grammatical modifier Attribute grammatical modifiers

A content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb WordNet 3.0

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A content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

In linguistics, a modifier is an optional element in phrase structure or clause structure which modifies the meaning of another element in the structure. Wikipedia

A word that modifies the meaning of another word or limits its meaning Wikipedia Disambiguation

Optional element in phrase structure or clause structure Wikidata

A word, phrase, or clause that limits or qualifies the sense of another word or phrase. Wiktionary

A word or phrase, such as an adjective or adverb, that describes or characterizes another word or phrase, such as a noun or verb; a modifier; that adds or subtracts attributes to another. Wiktionary

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expletive attributive