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Quotes About Modifier

A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.' A lot of adjectives working overtime.
~ Sufjan Stevens
You do have the idea of being 'just good friends?'" He gave her a sideways look. "For so high and honorable an estate," Roshaun said, " 'just' seems a poor modifier to choose.
~ Diane Duane
phrases—a group of words that have no subject-verb combination and usually act as a modifier.
~ Ann Longknife
The theory without the practice becomes 'verbosity', as well as the practice without theory, turns activism. However, when it joins the practice with the theory has been the praxis, the creative and modifier action of reality.
~ Paulo Freire