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GRAMMAR JOURNAL -- Participial adjectives:

(before you spend time collecting examples for this assignment, be sure to read the WARNINGS here! -- scroll down)
Collect the following (cut and paste them to this form, or attach clippings or photocopies to a hardcopy of this form to be handed in). Include enough of the context (at least the sentence before and after) to make the meaning clear. (Document the source. It CANNOT be an English grammar text, handbook, or dictionary!):

TWO of the following types of compound adjectives:

    1. a compound adjective formed from a past participle (a moth-eaten jacket)
    2. a compound adjective formed from a present participle (wood-burning stoves)
    3. a compound adjective formed from a noun with the sense of "having"(a 4-wheeled vehicle)
For each :
    I. __underline__ or bold the compound adjective
    II. CAPITALIZE the noun being modified
    III. restate the noun phrase as an active sentence:
    (the moths have eaten the jacket, the stoves burn wood, the vehicle has 4 wheels)
YOU CAN KEEP RESUBMITTING THIS ASSIGNMENT
UNTIL YOU'VE SUCCESSFULLY IDENTIFIED TWO DIFFERENT ADJECTIVES
EXAMPLE: compound adjective from a past participle :
Only thing is, Dave and his hand-cut TOBACCO are really the products of Philip Morris, a corporation that's about as down-home as midtown Manhattan and as homespun as marketeers at a focus group. "The idea was," says Karen Daragan, a Philip Morris spokeswoman, "the under-dog takes on the establishment."
(from: New York Times Magazine, January 29, 1995) 		hand-cut TOBACCO:
someone cut the tobacco by hand




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Ann Salzmann
Intensive English Institute
University of Illinois