Some of the following adjectives are used both before (attributive) and after (predicative) nouns that they modify. They may have the same or different meanings in these positions. If you can think of any example of a big meaning change, select "no" in the fourth column in the following chart. Others can be used in only one position. Click the buttons to select your answer. N/A stands for "not applicable".

Adjective	Attributive	Predicative	Both, same meaning
poor	yes no	yes no	yes no N/A
heavy	yes no	yes no	yes no N/A
main	yes no	yes no	yes no N/A
right	yes no	yes no	yes no N/A
mere	yes no	yes no	yes no N/A
bad	yes no	yes no	yes no N/A
late	yes no	yes no	yes no N/A
well	yes no	yes no	yes no N/A
glad	yes no	yes no	yes no N/A
afraid	yes no	yes no	yes no N/A
abroad	yes no	yes no	yes no N/A

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