States to develop an alternative to the Marxist account of social development. In its most sophisticated variants, modernization theory explains modernization by reference to. the onset of the process that Talcott Parsons refers to as structural differentiation. This is a. process which may be triggered in many different ways, but which is most likely to be initiated by.
An adjective is the part of speech (or word class) that modifies a noun or a pronoun. Adjective: adjectival. In addition to their basic (or positive) forms (for example, big and beautiful), most descriptive adjectives have two other forms: comparative (bigger and more beautiful) and superlative (biggest and most beautiful).
Definition: A word group with an adjective as its head. This adjective may be accompanied by modifiers, determiners, and/or qualifiers. Adjective phrases modify nouns.They may be attributive (appearing before the noun) or predicative (appearing after a linking verb), but not all adjectives can be used in both positions.See Examples and Observations, below. An adjective phrase consists of an adjective which may be preceded and/or followed by other words. 2  The premodifier is always an adverb phrase, but the post-modifiers can be an adverb phrase, a prepositional phrase, or even a clause.