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词组 qualifiers
释义 qualifiers

◊ GRAMMAR

A qualifier is a word or group of words which comes after a noun and gives more information about the person or thing referred to. Qualifiers can be:


• prepositional phrases

...a girl with red hair.
...the man in the dark glasses.


• place adverbs or time adverbs

...down in the dungeon beneath.
...a reflection of life today in England.

See entries at ↑ Places and ↑ Time.


• adjectives followed by phrases or clauses
...machinery capable of clearing rubble off the main roads.
...the sort of weapons likely to be deployed against it.


• adjectives such as 'concerned' and 'available'
The idea needs to come from the individuals concerned.
...the person responsible for his death.

See entry at ↑ Adjectives.


• relative clauses

The man who had done it was arrested.
...the town that John came from.


• non-finite clauses

...two of the problems mentioned above.
...a simple device to test lung function.

See entries at ↑ '-ing' forms, ↑ Past participles, and ↑ 'To'-infinitive clauses.
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