We should add a new exception to the passive voice assessment to avoid marking predicative expressions as passive. Some predicative adjectives can be recognized based on the word preceding the ...

A few words are first said about the well-known difficulty of drawing a hard and fast line between various grammatical categories. Then follows an account of some types of complements and attributes ...

I am alone (without others) but not lonely (without others or alone and unhappy as a result of it). Alone means without the company of others, without anyone around. Alone is a predicative adjective, ...

Previous metaphor studies have paid much attention to nominal metaphors and predicative metaphors, but little attention has been given to adjective metaphors. Although some studies have focused on ...