At 02:21 AM 13/06/2008, Tamara P Duvall wrote:
On Jun 12, 2008, at 11:47, David in Ballarat wrote:
The "ive" ending is usually reserved for adjectives. Know any other
similar examples of nouns?
Prerogative. Palliative. Motive. All function as both nouns and
adjectives, as does "detective". I think all of them are, probably,
of French origin and ended, originally, in -if. One of these days,
who knows, we may be having an "aperitive" in the afternoon :)
Interesting, and probably correct. However, of the 3 samples you
offered, only "motive" operates as a noun in Australian English, the
other 2 remain as adjectives - nope - I have heard "prerogative" used
as a noun - sorry. But "Palliative" is mostly followed by "Care" -
perhaps always so, although I'm always reluctant to use an absolute. :)
David in Ballarat
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