Literary notes about Substantive (AI summary)
The term “substantive” is employed in literature with a dual character, serving both as a grammatical label and as a descriptor for fundamental principles. In discussions of language, it commonly refers to a noun or noun-like element that can be modified by adjectives, adjective clauses, or other complements ([1], [2], [3]). It also designates entire clauses used in the role of a noun, such as those functioning as subjects or objects ([4], [5], [6]), and appears in specialized constructions like the nominative absolute or exclamatory nominative ([7], [8], [9]). In other contexts, particularly in legal and philosophical writings, “substantive” describes the essential, foundational aspects of a concept or law ([10], [11], [12]).
- (2) A subordinate clause that modifies a substantive is called an adjective clause.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge - ↑ 5 In the technical language of grammar an adjective is said to describe a substantive when it describes the object which the substantive denotes.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge - An adjective is a word which describes or limits a substantive.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge - The absolute essentials for a sentence are a substantive as subject and a verb as predicate ( § 35 ).
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge - A substantive clause is a clause used like a noun, as, That the men are afraid is clear enough (clause as subject)
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - 1. A subordinate clause that is used as a noun is called a noun (or substantive) clause.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge - 4. A substantive used as an exclamation is called an exclamatory nominative or a nominative of exclamation ( p. 42 ).
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge - The substantive is in the nominative case and is called a nominative absolute ( p. 144 ).
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge - A substantive used as an exclamation is called an exclamatory nominative (or nominative of exclamation).
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge - But the other view prevailed, and thus, in fact, made a change in the substantive law.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes - In most substantive crimes the ground on which that likelihood stands is the common working of natural causes as shown by experience.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes - This change was a change in substantive law, and logically it should have been applied throughout.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes
