modifiers
Use Modifiers in a sentence
əˌfaɪ noun
1.
a person or thing that modifies.
2.
Grammar.
a.
a word, phrase, or sentence element that limits or qualifies the sense of another word, phrase, or element in the same construction.
b.
the immediate constituent of an endocentric construction that is not the head.
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modifier (ˈmɒdɪˌfaɪə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | grammar Also called: qualifier a word or phrase that qualifies the sense of another word; for example, the noun alarm is a modifier of clock in alarm clock and the phrase every day is an adverbial modifier of walks in he walks every day |
| 2. | a person or thing that modifies |
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Modifiers
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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Example sentences
Digital gods are distributed deities, verbs and modifiers rather than nouns.
Gravity, relative speed are known modifiers in our local reality.
But there was a price: all those misplaced modifiers made book reports and research papers harder to understand.
There are, he says, no modifiers that distinguish the tenses of verbs.
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