http://www.englishforums.com/English/EslGeneralEnglishGrammar-Questions/Forum12.htmAsk your questions on grammar and get your sentence checked. We answer lots of different types of general English grammar questions here. <font color=red>DO NOT post paragraphs and compositions here. Post them in our <a href="http://www.englishforums.com/English/EssayReportCompositionWriting/Forum9.htm"><b>Essay, Report and Composition Writing Forum</b></a>.</font>enXMOD (Build: 3615.29165)http://www.englishforums.com/English/Adjectives/bhdlc/post.htm#119330Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:52:33 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:119330davkett0http://www.englishforums.com/English/Adjectives/bhdlc/post.htm#119330http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-119330.xmlI keep thinking about this 'warm yellow' question. Experienced forum members have seemed to agree with CJ that this is a 'uselessly baffling puzzle'. I am curious about the reason, maybe because it has been a long time since I approached writing and speaking English from a conscious memory of grammatical terminology, I had to look it up to re-learn that adjectives do not have as one of their official functions the modification of other adjectives. And yet, it seems to me here, that unnecessarily convoluted thinking is required to demonstrate how 'warm' is not an adjective modifying another adjective, 'yellow'. Would the problem in 'a brassy yellow pigment' go away if 'brassy yellow' were hyphenated, 'brassy-yellow'? In 'the...http://www.englishforums.com/English/Adjectives/bhdlc/post.htm#119230Sun, 24 May 2009 17:52:33 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:119230julielai1http://www.englishforums.com/English/Adjectives/bhdlc/post.htm#119230http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-119230.xmlDehbaash wrote: This is the common practice to waste time by native English "teachers"( especially native speakers with no teaching experience) who get paid by the hour. The other method is to pick some words from a pop song and concoct some meanings for them under the guise of "getting the feel" of Western culture!! A couple of my English teachers, who were Chinese, did that too.http://www.englishforums.com/English/Adjectives/bhdlc/post.htm#119139Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:52:33 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:119139davkett2http://www.englishforums.com/English/Adjectives/bhdlc/post.htm#119139http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-119139.xmlI can tell you that artists know what a 'warm' yellow means. It's not all that subjective, and its not adverbial. It is not 'in what way' is it yellow, rather, it is 'what characteristic of' yellow. The name of the color, when it has a particular characteristic applied to it, may be in many cases a noun--as Eimai Anglos says. 'It is a dark yellow.' That is a sickly yellow.' 'Van Gogh is known for his intense yellows'. But there is also: A brassy yellow pigment . A dusty pink dress.http://www.englishforums.com/English/Adjectives/bhdlc/post.htm#119134Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:52:33 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:119134Eimai_Anglos3http://www.englishforums.com/English/Adjectives/bhdlc/post.htm#119134http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-119134.xmlIn this sense you can consider "yellow" to be a noun. For example: Two women looking at clothing/wallpaper/paint or similar. "What do you think of this yellow?" "I think it's too pale/cold/warm/pink."http://www.englishforums.com/English/Adjectives/bhdlc/post.htm#118989Sun, 24 May 2009 17:52:33 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:118989Dehbaash4http://www.englishforums.com/English/Adjectives/bhdlc/post.htm#118989http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-118989.xml....this type of uselessly baffling puzzle under the guise of teaching you to read, write, and speak English! This is the common practice to waste time by native English "teachers"( especially native speakers with no teaching experience) who get paid by the hour. The other method is to pick some words from a pop song and concoct some meanings for them under the guise of "getting the feel" of Western culture!!http://www.englishforums.com/English/Adjectives/bhdlc/post.htm#118983Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:52:33 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:118983CalifJim5http://www.englishforums.com/English/Adjectives/bhdlc/post.htm#118983http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-118983.xml"warm" can be considered an adverb in the expression "warm yellow". I suppose it would be called an adverb of manner. In what way is it yellow? In a warm way. Warm(ly). (I hope your teacher isn't giving you this type of uselessly baffling puzzle under the guise of teaching you to read, write, and speak English!) CJhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/Adjectives/bhdlc/post.htmSun, 24 May 2009 17:52:33 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:118968Anonymous6http://www.englishforums.com/English/Adjectives/bhdlc/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-118968.xmlwhen using warm to describe the feeling of the colour of yellow, which is an adjective what is warm? An adjective to describe an adjective??