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[wailing_imam]

Folks,

Please can someone give me a definition of an EVALUATIVE ADJECTIVE? Could you also provide a definition of a QUALITATIVE ADJECTIVE and an ATTRIBUTIVE ADJECTIVE? I am interested in evaluative adjectives in relation to newspapers, media and their emotive language.

Does anyone have any decent websites where I can check such things out in future? When I type in a search for evaluative adjectives on google and yahoo, it just provides links to obscure linguistics papers that are entirely useless.

Cheers

WI

[Stephen Jones]

You can get a fair idea of what an evaluative adjective is by looking at the sties mentioned on the first page of a google search.

An adjective would be used attributively in a phrase the 'the old dog', but predicatively in the phrase 'the dog is old'.

This page seems to be the kind of thing you are looking for:
http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/Linguistics/lectures/05lect09.html

(found on the first page of a Google Search by the way).

Just as a ,matter of curiousity, why are you doing research into terms you don't even know the meaning of?

[wailing_imam]

The person who gives us our lesson outlines is fond of making things that little bit more frustrating.

Thanks for your help. I'll check out that link.

[Stephen Jones]

ARe these lesson outlines for you to teach, or lesson outlines given to you as a student.