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>Greg Stigers writes:
>
>>[N]ote that function-shifted words such as "chemistry"
>>can only modify a very small number of nouns (class, test, teacher,
>>professor, lab), unlike true modifiers, such as "blue".
>
>I'm sorry, but "blue" is a verb.

According to dictionary.com, blue is:

blue
n.
1) The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between green and
indigo, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of
approximately 420 to 490 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may
vary in lightness and saturation, whose hue is that of a clear daytime
sky; one of the additive or light primaries; one of the psychological
primary hues.
2) A pigment or dye imparting this hue.
Bluing.
3) An object having this hue.
Dress or clothing of this hue: The ushers wore blue.
4) A person who wears a blue uniform.
blues A dress blue uniform, especially that of the U.S. Army.
5) often Blue
A member of the Union Army in the Civil War.
The Union Army.
6) A bluefish.
7) A small blue butterfly of the family Lycaenidae.
8)
The sky.
The sea.



Connie Samuel
Clatsop Community College / Astoria, Oregon
503/338-2320
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