The word 'tennis' is a noun. When a noun is used to describe another noun, it's called an attributive noun (or noun adjunct).
The term 'tennis court' is a compound noun.
Why some nouns are also adjective and some are not, even though they are used as an adjective, is a mystery. The word 'tennis' is designated as a noun only in the five dictionaries that I consulted for this answer.
The direction itself is a noun. It is only an adjective when placed before a noun (e.g. west wing).
An adjective comes before a noun or a pronoun to tell more about it.
Examples of adjectives that are formed from a noun are:air (noun) - airy (adjective)artist (noun) - artistic (adjective)beauty (noun) - beautiful (adjective)blood (noun) - bloody (adjective)fish (noun) - fishy (adjective)hope (noun) - hopeful (adjective)length (noun) - lengthy (adjective)memory (noun) - memorable (adjective)politics (noun) - political (adjective)thought (noun) - thoughtful (adjective)use (noun) - useful (adjective)water (noun) - watery (adjective)
No, it is a verb or a noun (to go around, to surround; a round shape). The adjective form is circular.
It can be, but another used before a noun is an adjective.
Adjective or noun. It is an adjective if you say, "Alex is a good tennis player." because it modifies player. It is a noun if you say "I play tennis."
Yes. Hyphenate two or more words acting as an adjective before a noun.
The noun for the place that tennis is played is a courtor the compound noun, tennis court.
No, the word court is a verb and a noun. The noun may be used as a noun adjunct (e.g. court proceedings). For the verb court (woo, pursue), a negative form "uncourted" is an adjective.
'Courts' is the plural version (masculine) of the adjective 'court' which means 'short' or it could be the plural form of the masculine noun 'court' which means 'court' as in 'tennis court'Regards,TransAction Translators
It can be either. The color gray is a noun. Used before a noun, it is an adjective (gray sky).
Before the noun.
The word high is an adjective, although also a noun. Used before a noun, it is an adjective, as in "high valley" or "high walls."
"Innocent" can be both a noun and an adjective. As an adjective, it describes someone or something that is free from guilt or wrongdoing. As a noun, it refers to a person who is free from guilt or blame.
The direction itself is a noun. It is only an adjective when placed before a noun (e.g. west wing).
An adjective comes before a noun or a pronoun to tell more about it.
It may be either. As a cardinal number, 600 is a noun. Used before nouns to indicate quantity, it is an adjective.