Adjectives in English
rogersgeorge on November 6th, 2022
Unlike many languages, adjectives in English say almost nothing about the words they modify. Not gender, and not number. Adjectives don’t say whether the word they refer to is plural, so we don’t have a plural form for adjectives. Here’s an incorrect sentence from an astronomy article:
https://interestingengineering.com/science/meteoroid-strike-mars-water-ice
So it’s a “500-foot wide crater.” Adjectives stay singular. Harrumpf.
Here’s a picture:
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