The only difference in conceptual meaning is that the adjective eager is not modified by tense in (2). It is shown in Predicate Adjectives that the predicate adjectives assign one or more arguments, ...

Adjectives serve as the painters of language, adding color and detail to the nouns and pronouns in your sentences. They answer three crucial questions: what kind, how many, or which one.

(9) Adjectives cannot function as hosts for tense in English and in most if not all Indo-European languages. Since there is no host for tense, Tense cannot lower. By Last Resort, a dummy (auxiliary) ...

The century-old failure of historical linguistics to discover regularities of semantic change comparable to those in phonological change, as described by Grassmann or Grimm, has forced us to entertain ...

Adjectives are best used as Robin, not Batman–supporting your point versus making it. You create that relationship by placing adjectives immediately before the nouns they modify versus isolating ...