verbal adjective
Relating to speech
A verbal adjective is an adjective derived from a verb, retaining some verbal characteristics while functioning as a modifier.
In English, these are typically participles: the running water, a broken promise, the escaped prisoner.
The term is more precise than "participle" when emphasizing the word's adjectival function rather than its verbal origin.
- participialOf a verb-based modifier
- present participleVerb form showing continuity
- gerundiveVerbal adjective of obligation
- activeIn operation now
- modifierWord altering another
predicative · qualifier · attributive · stative · derived · passive · causative · inflected · action word · nominalized · suffixal · descriptive · conjugated · past participle · restrictive · non-restrictive · appositive · spoken
- verbalsgerund, infinitive, participle, present participle, past participle
- Participlespast participle, present participle, corrido, muerto, roto
- verb grammarconjugation, tense, infinitive, participle, past tense