✨ Adjectival Phrase-Page 31
Detailed Notes
💡 What is an Adjectival Phrase?
An adjectival phrase is a group of words that works like an adjective. It gives more information about a noun or pronoun.
The main word in an adjectival phrase is called the head word. The head word is always an adjective.
🧩 Easy Structure
Modifier + Adjective = Adjectival Phrase
A modifier tells us how much or to what degree.
🌟 Simple Examples
very happy
quite beautiful
extremely tired
fairly unhappy
📖 Examples in Sentences
- 👟 These are unbelievably expensive shoes.
- 😐 Sarah was fairly bored with you.
- 👀 She had extremely menacing eyes.
- 🦁 The extremely tired lioness is losing patience.
- 😊 My mother was fairly unhappy with the service.
- 🎓 The very intelligent student won the prize.
🎯 Head Word
In the phrase very clever:
- very – modifier
- clever – head word and adjective
The main word is clever, so the whole group is an adjectival phrase.
✅ Points to Remember
- An adjectival phrase describes a noun or pronoun.
- Its head word is always an adjective.
- It may contain words like very, quite, too, fairly or extremely.
- It does not have a complete subject and verb.
🌈 Easy Trick
If a group of words describes a noun and its main word is an adjective, it is an adjectival phrase.
An adjectival phrase is a group of words that works like an adjective and gives more information about a noun or pronoun.