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Modifier
noun
1.
A content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb.
Synonym:
qualifier
.
2.
A moderator who makes less extreme or uncompromising.
3.
A person who changes something.
Synonym:
changer
.
4.
A gene that modifies the effect produced by another gene.
Synonym:
modifier gene
.
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Relative Pronouns.—Relative pronouns may be used as subject, object, object of a preposition, subject of an infinitive, and possessive
modifier
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— Composition-Rhetoric • Stratton D. Brooks
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