Weird Al went to cooking school to learn all about the delights of canned pineapple, canned Spam, and diced sweet potatoes. The phrases are “canned peaches”, “canned carrots”, and “canned Spam”. So many careless people use “can” instead of “canned”, even for the signs in supermarkets. Past participle and present participles as adjectives:Į.G.: The canned vegetable section of the grocery store was an odd place for Jack to find his missing cousins, Peter, Paul, and Mary. Stranded – past participle dangling – present participle. In other words, we use the past participle or the present participle.Į.G.: The stranded man swayed above the dangling net. Do I have permission to use it?ĭo not forget that most verbs in English become adjectives by adding “ed” or “ing”. something that can be injected), so I would like to go with “injectible,” but according to my spellchecker, that word doesn’t exist. I think that “injectable” is the run-of-the-mill word everyone sees it’s an adjective meaning “able to be injected.” However, in the medical field we often need the noun (i.e. You mention the difference between collectable and collectible. Hmmm…you raised one point here that might explain my issue with injectable vs injectible. Want to improve your English in five minutes a day? Get a subscription and start receiving our writing tips and exercises daily! Keep learning! Browse the Spelling category, check our popular posts, or choose a related post below:Ħ Responses to “How Verbs Become Adjectives” When coining new terms, keep these rules in mind - though consider, as well, that even some existing words, such as embraceable, are ungainly, and newly minted terms may be disagreeable to some readers. (You’ll see moveable and the like in older publications, but this form is rare in contemporary usage.) Exceptions occur when a soft c or a soft g precedes the e, as in serviceable and changeable. And when a word ends in e, such as in the case of move, the e is omitted when -able is attached, hence movable. Two other peculiarities exist regarding the suffix: When it is appended to a verb ending in -ate, such as calculate, the original suffix is omitted, resulting, for example, in calculable (which is overshadowed in frequency of usage by its antonym, incalculable). Adjectives are also formed from attaching -able to nouns, such as objectionable from objection, though the nonword objectable is the logical formation based on the verb-plus- able formula. Strictly speaking, reliable, for example, means “able to be relied on,” not just “able to be relied,” but the needs of the language have silenced opposition to such usage. Intransitive verbs can also be transformed into adjectives by appending -able. In some cases, the variants reflect a distinction of meaning: For example, collectable means “able to be collected,” but the more common collectible has the connotation of desirability and is used as a noun to denote something worth collecting. Others are spelled either way, although one form predominates (as in the case of discernible and its less frequent variant discernable). (For example, immovable and invincible are never rendered immovible and invincable). New words can be formed by attaching -able to an adjective (I’ll get back to that in a moment) - or a noun (more about that later, too) - but -ible, though widespread in existing words, is discouraged for new coinages. The suffixes -able and -ible both express capability, fitness, or worth (or mean “tending, given, or liable to”), but there’s one key practical difference: The former flourishes, and the latter has fossilized. What determines whether a verb-to-adjective transformation ends with the suffix -able (as in assessable) or with -ible (as in accessible)? Why do some root words accept both options? What happens if the word ends with an e? Answers to these and other questions about -able and -ible follow. How Verbs Become Adjectives By Mark Nichol daw dawes dayak dayan dayboy dayfile dayflower dayfly dayspring deaconry. Kepler's Kermit Kettering Kevin Kewaskum Kewaunee Keynes Keynesian Khmer. Le Live Marseille, commentaire sur : ACM ANSI ASAP ASCII ATM's Achilles Ada Ada's Afghanistan. À partir de 19h les apéros party avec tapas et Ne ratez pas les nouveaux rendez-vous du live le
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