Tham khảo tài liệu 'the grammar book teacher course part 56', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 584 The Grammar Book As we have already seen predicative adjectives can also occur directly after a noun when the copular verb has been deleted. There are two kinds. The first kind of postnominal adjective consists of adjectives modifying object nouns They considered Stuart mad. This pattern occurs only with certain verbs. One group are verbs showing mental assessments or personal preferences such as consider like think prefer declare. report believe imagine hold want call and so on. Sandy thought it odd. They declared him sane. They held him accountable. As we observed earlier the adjective occurs direcdy following the NP because an object noun predicate has been generated or because the copula in its infinitive form has been deleted. The pattern with the infinitive is discussed further in Chapter 31 on complementation. Another group of verbs that permit the adjective to follow the object directly are certain causative verbs such as make turn get keep Hay fever makes me crazy. The frost turned the leaves brown. His diet kept him healthy. No deleted infinitive copula is posited for such sentences. Notice however that these sentences can be paraphrased by inserting the verb cause and a copula infinitive Hay fever causes me to be crazy. The frost causes the leaves to turn brown. His diet causes him to keep healthy. See Chapter 32 for more on the special characteristics of causative verbs. The second kind of postnominal adjective can be said to be derived from relative clauses see Chapter 29 . Suffice it to say here that they follow the noun directly having lost the relative pronoun and the verb of the relative clause The news available at this time is not good. T that is Here are two more examples People strong in character should run for political office. T who are Join the committee concerned with local development issues. T that is It should be apparent why relative clauses are sometimes called adjective clauses. Adjectives and relative clauses serve similar .
