ABSTRACT
MODIFICATION [15c: through French from Latin modificatio/modificationis setting limits] A term for the dependence of one grammatical unit on another, the less dependent unit being delimited or made more specific by the more dependent unit: the adjective good modifying the noun weather in the phrase good weather; the noun diamond modifying the noun mines in diamond mines; the adverb strikingly modifying the adjective handsome in strikingly handsome.
