Adjectives: how to describe people, places and things in Spanish. We use adjectives to describe things. In Spanish, adjectives usually go after the noun. A tall boy would be un chico alto. The gender ...
Happy is the main lexical predicate here. It takes one argument: an experiencer--John. Tall takes one argument: a theme: Mary. (12) *John is being tall. (13) *Mary is being fond of red roses. (14) ...