Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s38.1

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c27.s38.1

Adjectives are modifiers of nouns expressing qualities or properties. The adjective always precedes the noun it qualifies. Unlike nouns, the adjective has no person, number, gender or case; it does not vary its form to accord with the person, number, gender or case of the noun it qualifies. Unlike verbs, it has no tense. Appellative nouns are formed from adjectival stems with the addition of pronominal (PNG) suffixes. However, adjectives themselves do not occur as independent words (with a couple of exceptions noticed below). The adjectival stems in the Corpus occur invariably combined with personal names or place names:

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