+50. Equivalents for Adjectives.+--The following are used as equivalents
for the typical adjective:--
1. A noun used in apposition: [Barrie's story of his mother, "_Margaret
Ogilvy_," is very beautiful].
2. A noun used as an adjective: [A _campaign_ song].
3. A prepositional phrase: [His little, nameless, unremember'd acts _of
kindness_ and _of love_].
4. Participles or participial phrases: [We saw a brook _running_ between
the alders. Soldiers _hired to serve a foreign country_ are called
mercenaries].
5. Relative clauses: [This is the house _that Jack built_].
6. An adverb (sometimes called the _locative_ adjective): [The book _here_
is the one I want].
VERBS
+51. Uses of Verbs.+--A _verb_ is the word or word-group that makes an
assertion or statement, and it is therefore the most important part of the
whole sentence. It has been already shown that such a verb as _speaks_
serves the double purpose of suggesting an activity and showing relation.
The most purely _relational_ verb is the verb _to be_, which is called the
_copula_ or _linking verb_, for the very reason that it joins predicate
words to the subject: [The lake _is_ beautiful]. _To be_, however, is not
always a pure _copula_. In such a sentence as, "He that cometh to God must
believe that He _is_," the word _is_ means _exists_.Verbs that are like
the copula, such as, _appear, become, seem_, etc.
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