Secretory, is an adjective describing nouns like: cell, function and pathway
An adjective is a part of speech, that describes a noun. It enriches a sentence by adding an additional information. There are several types of adjectives and different ways of creating them.
This page is devoted to the adjective secretory that illustrates nouns beginning with activity. Sorting of these words is random. Moreover the presented vocabulary is divided into five categories, just like our entire website. This particular section refers to General words. You may wonder what is a difference between Verbsearch and other analogus pages. The idea of our website is to adjust the search results as close to your requirements as possible. This means that for the purposes of a business paper the vocabulary will be slightly different than for law dissertation. We hope that this split will let you find the most appropriate words. However if you are not fully satisfied with the search results, just check out the other category. Note that the most popular words are listed in the general section, but more specific ones you will find in the remaining four categories. Notice, that if you want to check other nouns that are linked to the word secretory click on a particular word. However, if you want to learn more about adjectives overall, read the text below.
What exactly is an adjective
Adjective is a word that specify and modifies a noun. This part of speech provides more details about a specific person, a place or a thing. Its role is to enrich a noun. However, it can significantly change the meaning of a described noun.
See examples blow:
• The opposite meaning, adjectives change the meaning of a noun: an oval table vs a rectangular table
• More details, adjectives enrich a noun with detailed, the descriptive information: a dry and warm summer
• A different meaning, each adjective describes a noun with a different but not opposite meaning: a comic story or a historical story
So, in other words, adjective provides information of a state or quality of the described noun. It collects and presents information about object, size, colour, age, shape, origin and many more.
Creating an adjective
This part of speech is formed in different ways. Some adjectives are created by adding a suffix –able to a verb, eg: remarkable. Other consist of a noun and –ful at the end, like skillful. Some suffixes with examples are listed below.
• - al: historical
• - ary: stationary
• - ish: foolish
• - ic: scientific
• - less: careless
• - ous: delicious
• - ive: attractive
Adjective types
There are several types of adjectives, among others:
• Descriptive:
◦ (size): gigantic
◦ (color): pink
◦ (opinion): pink
◦ (age): fantastic
◦ (shape): young
• Quantitative: square
• Nationality: Norwegian
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Last updated: Sep 19, 2024
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