In grammar, an attributive expression is a word or phrase within a noun phrase that modifies the head noun. It may be an: *

attributive adjective In linguistics, an adjective (abbreviated ) is a word that generally modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes its referent. Its semantic role is to change information given by the noun. Traditionally, adjectives were considered one of the mai ...

* attributive noun *

attributive verb An attributive verb is a verb that modifies (expresses an attribute of) a noun in the manner of an attributive adjective, rather than express an independent idea as a predicate. In English (and in most European languages), verb forms that can be u ...

or other part of speech, such as an attributive numeral.

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