pieanne  +  82143 Fri, 18 Mar 05 02:07 PM Hello! Apart from "little", could someone please give me some examples of peripheral adjectives? Thanks in advance. pieanne Joined on Thu, Jan 20 2005 South of France ...But I'm Belgian! Veteran Member 7,517 I'm glad to help, but I'm not a native! And please excuse my typos...

	pieanne  +  82148 Fri, 18 Mar 05 02:35 PM Then how come you can say "I'm asleep, awake, afraid ...", and not "I'm little"? pieanne

	pieanne  +  82149 Fri, 18 Mar 05 02:42 PM OK, I see what you mean! You can't say "the asleep dog", it'll be "the sleeping dog". What I meant was: " are there other adjectives that can't be used a predicates"? pieanne Predicates

	x.mehrdad  +  82155 Fri, 18 Mar 05 03:10 PM Hello again, -an outright lie, and not the lie is right. -utter folly -his chief excuse - my former friend -a criminal court These are the ones, I got from abook x.mehrdad

	pieanne  +  82158 Fri, 18 Mar 05 03:19 PM Yes, great! Merci, Cher ami! pieanne

	pieanne  +  82167 Fri, 18 Mar 05 03:32 PM Tout à fait! You can also say "de rien" - though I'm afraid it has a Belgian flavour, or so my son says - Cheers pieanne

	MrPedantic  +  82261 Sat, 19 Mar 05 01:12 AM I don't quite see the objection to 'I am little'. You sometimes hear 'I'm only little', for instance. MrP MrPedantic Joined on Tue, Oct 12 2004 Veteran Member 12,592 ...opella forensis / adducit febris...