adjective
- placed or occurring after something else, especially (in grammar) placed after the word it modifies rather than before it
Usage: linguistics term; contrasts with preposed
Examples
- In English, adjectives are typically preposed, but in some languages they are postposed.
- The postposed modifier 'enough' appears after the adjective in phrases like 'good enough.'
- French uses postposed adjectives more frequently than English does.
- The linguist analyzed how postposed elements affect sentence structure.
- In the phrase 'the people present,' the adjective 'present' is postposed.