Adjective Phrase

This is a group of words in a sentence that describe a noun or pronoun in that sentence. They can come before or after the noun or pronoun in the sentence and can be represented by an adjective.

Example; The extremely tired children went to bed as soon as they got home.

In the sentence above, the phrase ‘the extremely tired’ is the adjectival phrase. It modifies the noun ‘children’. We call this type of adjectival phrase attributive because it fits inside the noun phrase of the noun that it modifies.

Example; The bag I got for school is a little too small.

In the sentence above, the phrase ‘a little too small’ is the adjectival phrase. It modifies the noun bag. This type of adjectival phrase is called predicative because it sits outside the noun phrase it modifies. Predicative adjectival phrases also usually joined to the noun by a linking verb. In this case the linking verb is the verb ‘is’.