Let's learn about predictive adjectives!

[Here comes dat chin]

I'mma summarize an this article: https://www.brighthubeducation.com/esl-lesson-plans/41035-list-of-attributive-adjectives/

 

So the deal with most adjectives is that they can appear before the noun or after a verb such as "to be" or "to seem."

 

"The fast snake is fast," ya know? Well what's hot-dogging pretty cool is that some adjectives are more limited in their position in a sentence. There are predicative-only adjectives and attributive-only adjectives. Predicative-only adjectives can only be used at the end of a sentence so never before a noun. "The dog is asleep," not "the asleep dog." I started looking into this cause people keep saying "alive players" in TTT, and that sounds kinda strange.

 

Attributive-only adjectives can only appear before a noun and never at the end of a sentence. The examples given in the articles are: chief, main, principal, sheer, utter.

 

Pretty neat, huh?