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2007-04-15 00:20:05 · 11 answers · asked by Ella eh eh 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
house-trashing is an adjective describing the noun "party"
(predicate adjective modifying a predicate noun)
2007-04-15 01:44:00 · answer #1 · answered by Thrill K 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Look up the words adjective, adverb and noun in a dictionary and work it out - much better than asking on here.
On here you will get people like Jenni T telling you it is a verb, when in fact it is being used to qualify the word "party" and is thus quite clearly an adjective.
Used on its own, it WOULD be a verb, but not in the sense you have used it.
As I say, why ask on here when the general standard of spelling and grammar is nothing short of abysmal?
Mmm. Jenni T has an IQ of 140 (mine is 142, so close). Let's do the spelling check shall we?
House-trasingy?? Surely TRASHING. y9u?? Presumably you; isnt? - no, ISN'T; the plural if IQ is IQs, NOT IQ's, and although Americans use amoebas as the plural of amoeba, the correct word is AMOEBAE - it is called Latin.
Finally, of course, you WOULD be right if the question asked what house-trashing meant as in "she was arrested for house-trashing". However, "a house-trashing party" is "a party", qualified by the adjective "house-trashing" to describe the type of party it is.
2007-04-15 00:24:43 · answer #2 · answered by Essex Ron 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I have to disagree with pretty much all the other answers so far.
"House-trashing" is what's properly called a "classifier noun".
A classifier noun is a noun that's used as if it's an adjective, to classify the succeeding noun(s). For instance, in the phrase, "cash box", the word "cash" is a classifier. You can string classifiers together: e.g., "newspaper office cash box".
In the case of "house-trashing" it's slightly more obscure, because "house-trashing" itself is made up of two separate words. The key is that "trashing" itself here is used as a gerund (a noun formed from a verb by adding "-ing") and therefore the entire construct is a noun. Indeed, "house" itself is also a classifier noun in this context.
2007-04-15 22:59:36 · answer #3 · answered by Darren 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In the sentence you quote it's an adjective, qualifying the noun "party".
Take away the word "party", and it becomes a noun, object of the preposition "over".
In the sentence "She was house-trashing", it would be a verb (present participle, to be exact).
In the sentence "House-trashing is a serious breach of manners towards your host", it would be a noun, subject of the verb "is". (The technical name for this last one is a "gerund", which is the "-ing" part of a verb used as a noun.)
2007-04-15 10:25:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is an adjective - if we are talking just about the word 'house-trashing'.
an adverb usually ends in 'ly' and describes how someone does something/or how it is done
A noun is countable/uncountable - we would say how many houses have you trashed?
As a verb - it would be to house-trash...
a verb are things we do, to swim, to play, to eat , to house-trash.
In your context we look at the descriptive part.
An Adjective is a descriptive word
2007-04-15 00:23:29 · answer #5 · answered by thumberlina 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
H-trashing is niether a word nor is correct using a hiphon. It is in real english two words, house which, is a noun and trashing, which is a verb.
2007-04-15 01:46:39 · answer #6 · answered by lordcomplexity 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Although not an officially recognised term it is a hyphenated mixture of a noun (house) and a verb (trashing). Put together it would, technically, be a verb in similar vein to others such as 'fly-fishing'.
2007-04-15 00:44:29 · answer #7 · answered by quatt47 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
You get arrested for "actions" that you take....So if girl was arrested for house-trasing it is being used as a verb.....
Hey Essex Ron y9u moron actually READ what a person says before you bash them I said VERB NOT NOUN....
This isnt brain surgery.... I have a 140 IQ so really think about this question....and you will know the word is being used in this case as a verb not an adjective.....Some nasty people handing out ratings here have IQ's of amoebas
Nice edit Essex Ron.....thanks :P
2007-04-15 00:24:42 · answer #8 · answered by Jenny T 4 · 0⤊ 5⤋
It is an adjective in that sentence because it describes 'party'.
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2007-04-15 00:26:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I think thats an adjective.
Has someone been arrested over that case then? Is it one of the daughters freidns or someone that they didn't know? x
2007-04-15 00:27:15 · answer #10 · answered by FreakGirl 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋