¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Modifies
1. modify [v] - See also: modify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Modifies
Literary usage of Modifies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Grammar: In which Words, Phrases, and Sentences are Classified by Stephen Watkins Clark (1866)
"Here modifies " keeps"—denoting place; hence, Adverb of Place. ... ("To skies
more clear," is the Modified Adverb ) More modifies " clear"—denoting degree; ..."
2. Higher Lessons in English: A Work on English Grammar and Composition : in by Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg (1902)
"When modifies both listen and calls, denoting that the two acts take place at
... At the time modifies listen, at which modifies catta, and which connects. ..."
3. School Education (1907)
"equivalent to that which, then which I want to know modifies that) ; what . . .
done is я, substantive attribute complement. 3. (1) to sell them Is object ..."
4. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University, Herbert Baxter Adams (1892)
"It will be seen that this view simply modifies the old theory of the village
community by introducing a closer bond of kinship and the element of ..."
Other Resources:
Interlingua