Adjective Phrase

An Adjective Phrase is a phrase with an adjective head word.

• AKA: AP, Adjectival Phrase.
• Context:
  • It can be part of an Adjective Clause.
  • It can be intensified by an adverb (e.g. extremely unpopular, very bad, more dangerous)
  • It can be Complemented by a Clause (e.g. happy to see them, bigger than we expected).
  • It can have an Adverb as a postmodifier (e.g. big enough)
  • It can modify a Noun or a Predicative.
  • …
• Example(s):
  • “The sky is [filled with clouds]”.
  • “I am the one who will [keep my office in a clean state]”.
  • “The building, [which is much taller than all others], is made of concrete.”.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • “cloud filled”, a Compound Adjective.
  • “real time”, a Compound Adjective.
  • an Adjective Clause.
• See: Adverbial Phrase.

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References

• http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/adjective_phrase#Noun
  • 1. (grammar) A phrase that collectively modifies or describes a noun or pronoun and which can usually be used both attributively and predicatively, can be graded, and be modified by an adverb.
  • Examples
    • That house down the block is [a hideous shade of red].
    • The road [which was tarred on Thursday] is the one we need to take.

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