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Thread starter Jignesh77
Start date Jan 19, 2019

Jignesh77

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Leeds uk

India- hindi

(1.1attributive)
Resulting in or expressed by speechlessness.
‘they stared in dumb amazement’
dumb | Definition of dumb in English by Oxford Dictionaries
Please explain the meaning of (attributive) in the given context

👁 Uncle Jack

Uncle Jack

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Cumbria, UK

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Placed before the noun. You will see it is contrasted with predicative, where the adjective is placed after the verb.

Oxford Dictionaries has a page describing this:
Attributive and predicative adjectives | Oxford Dictionaries

Jignesh77

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Thanks a lot!

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