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  • The adjective red-faced modifies the noun gentleman by giving us the picture that the man way quite old and was very wrinkly in his face
  • 2
  • in extract 2 the comparative adjective modifies the noun me useing the words balder and older . The tells us that he is balder and older than he was before and compares the two appearances
  • 3
  • In extract 2 an examples of deterioration is when Stevenson says “tokens of swift physical decay “. This tell us that Lanyon is getting very old and he’s essentially dying.
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