The bell on the bike was adjunct because it's noisy.
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Medication can be a useful adjunct to physical therapy and a regular exercise routine.
Certain people were adjunct additions to the campus.
She was an adjunct professor at the university.
She works as an adjunct professor at the university, teaching introductory psychology classes.
She worked as an adjunct professor at the university while completing her PhD.
An adjunct in linguistics is a word or phrase that provides additional information in a sentence but is not essential to its meaning. It can be removed without changing the basic structure of the sentence. In the field of linguistics, studying adjuncts helps researchers understand how language is structured and how meaning is conveyed through different elements in a sentence.
(As a modifier indicating the location or source, it could be classified as a noun adjunct) The desert landscape was greener than he had expected. It is sometimes difficult to study desert animals in the wild.
(noun or noun adjunct) "The disease spread rapidly and there was no cure." "Measles is a viral disease that usually affects children." "The disease organism in many of the cases was a mutated bacteria."
(Monday is a proper noun and cannot actually be an adjective, but it can be a noun adjunct as in these sentences)My best friend was wearing her Monday shirt.The Monday morning paper always has the supermarket section.
In functional grammar, a modal adjunct is an adverbial phrase that provides additional information about the modality of a sentence. It typically indicates the speaker's attitude towards the action or situation described in the sentence, such as possibility, necessity, or obligation. Modal adjuncts can include words like "perhaps," "certainly," "probably," "necessarily," and "undoubtedly."
Sewing machines is a compound noun. (The gerund sewing is acting as a noun adjunct.)
No, you do not need a PhD to become an adjunct professor. Many adjunct professors have a master's degree or relevant professional experience in the field they are teaching.