Ch. 15 Supplements

Requirements

Others

• Adjectives have three functions:
1. Attributive: “the good book”
2. Predicate: “the book is good”
3. Substantive: “the good, the bad, and the ugly”
• If an adjective is near a noun with the same gender and number, how is the adjective used?
• Probably predicate or attributive.
• An attributive adjective is always after the noun that it modifies.
• An attributive adjective agrees with its noun with regard to definiteness.
• A predicate adjective never has the article.
• What if you can’t find a nearby noun that makes sense for the adjective to modify? What do the adjective’s gender and number mean then?
• The adjective is substantival.
• The adjective is acting as a noun that has the gender and number indicated by the adjective.
• Only the qal stem has both active and passive participles.
• In parsings, we need to specify whether it is an active or passive participle.
• For other stems, we just need to indicate that it is a participle.