argumentative

Modifying Another Word

• very: I prefer not to give my advice there anymore it all gets very argumentative.
• too: In these relationships you can be too argumentative and defensive.
• deliberately: I don't want to appear deliberately argumentative, but there are falsehoods in that statement.
• unnecessarily: I could see what an unnecessarily argumentative, selfish person I had become, and this made me feel even worse.

Modifies a noun

• discourse: Hypertext's non-linearity has been seen to threaten authors ' control over discourse order and the coherence of their argumentative discourse.
• essay: Students were trained in thinking aloud while writing and then wrote two argumentative essays, each of around 1000 words.
• writing: They say there should be equal emphasis on discursive or argumentative writing.
• strategy: The second group were then given the same period of time to analyze the argumentative strategies employed by the members of the first group.
• structure: Scholars cannot identify frames by counting the appearance of key words and phrases, or by specific argumentative structures.
• text: In addition, argumentative texts tend to have higher values on the second principal component than descriptive texts.

Used with adjective complement

• become: He feels useless and becomes argumentative with family and friends.
• get: I prefer not to give my advice there anymore it all gets very argumentative.
• seem: Mr Dunlevy earlier made the point that some of my questions seemed rather argumentative.