English Adjective Phrases
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What is an adjective phrase?
An adjective phrase is a group of words in a sentence that acts like an adjective.
Example:
For example, you could say, "Lisa is an experienced teacher."
In this sentence the word experienced is an adjective. It describes Lisa.
You could replace experienced with a group of words (a phrase) and say, "Lisa is a teacher with a lot of experience."
With a lot of experience is a phrase (a group of words without a finite verb), and it functions as an adjective in the sentence. It describes Lisa.
So we call it an adjective phrase.
Additional adjective phrase examples (the adjective phrase is bold):
- The man by
the car is my father.
- My grandfather is a man of
great wisdom.
- Tom
is a man with good
instincts.
- She brought a cake made
of nuts and fruit.
- His friends are sailors living on the sea.
- The name of
the city is La Plata.
- They are a couple with
no children.
- The price of
the boots was too high.
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