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Syntactic Functions of Adjectives. Adjectives may serve in the sentence as an attribute, e.g. Do you see the small green boat? I have bought a red pencil. There are two main roles an adjective may take in a sentence. The first role is to act as a predicative adjective, in which the adjective modifies a preceding noun as a predicate, linked by a verb. 1. a predicative, e.g. Her smile was almost professional. He looked mature, sober and calm. 2. an objective predicative, e.g. I thought him very intelligent. She wore her hair short. 3. a subjunctive predicative, e.g. The door was closed tight. The second role an adjective may take as an attributive adjective in which it modifies a noun by being linked directly to the noun as part of the noun phrase, e.g. I see the small green boat. It was a cold autumn day. It should be noted that most adjectives can be used both attributively and predicatively, but some, among them those beginning with a-, can be used only as predicatives (e.g. afraid, asleep, along, awake, ashamed and also content, sorry, well, ill, due etc.).
