Their destruction of residue was unnecessary.

Is there anything in the definition of the verb as a word denoting an action or state that will enable us to include the ‘destroyed’ into the class of verbs and to exclude the ‘destruction’?

4. How is ‘state of being’ to be interpreted in such a way as to include verbs like ‘know’ or ‘love’ while excluding adjectives like ‘knowledgeable’ and ‘fond’?

5. If an adjective is a word that ‘describes’ what is designated by a noun or pronoun, why is it that in ‘they are fools’ the word ‘fools’ is a noun, not an adjective (like the ‘foolish’ in ‘they are foolish’).

1. Let us see what Curme says about a few examples. (1) John’s book – John’s is not an adjective: it has the ‘force’ of an adjective but is ‘formally’ the genitive of the noun; (2) the great Mississippi flood (Cf. the boy actor) – Mississippi (and presumably boy) are not true adjectives but nouns used as adjectives; (3) a Shakespearian scholar – Shakespearian is a true adjective.

Is the adjective defined by Curme a a class or as a function? Does the strong association between the modifier and the adjective facilitate the confusion between the two concepts?

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APPROACHES TO CLASSIFICATIONS	MAIN RESULTS	CONS	PROS
Traditional (polydifferential)			Consistent application of all the three criteria ensures the most scientifically reliable results.
Functional (Henry Sweet)			For the first time in English grammar an attempt was made to take polydifferential approach (in opposition to Latin grammars).
Syntactic-distributional (Charles Fries)
Complex (M. Blokh)		There are still intermediary phenomena left outside.

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