ABSTRACT
12.11. The relation between an adjunct (attributive adjective) and its principal (generally a substantive) is not always so easy and simple as in a young lady. Here we may substitute a lady who is young: the adjective thus may without any change in the meaning of the whole be made into a predicative after (a relative pronoun +) is. Though this is not possible in the same way in the case of such pronominal and numeral adjectives as this in this lady, any in any lady, or two in two ladies, yet we feel that all these adjectives stand in. the same relation, which we may call the direct relation, to the principal lady (or ladies). See 12.17.
