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Attributive

When we talk about attributive, it means describing something by giving it a quality or characteristic. Imagine you have a toy car. You can describe it in different ways such as its color, size or design. These descriptions are attributive because they help people understand what your toy car looks like.

For example, you can describe your toy car as a small red car with white stripes on the sides. The words "small", "red" and "with white stripes on the sides" are all attributive because they describe the qualities of your toy car.

In English language, we use attributive words or phrases to modify nouns, which means that they change the meaning of the noun to be more specific. So when you use attributive language, you are adding more information to something in order to give a fuller description of it.

Overall, attributive is just a fancy word to describe the way we use language to add more details to things we talk about.
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