ADJECTIVE PHRASE

ADJECTIVE PHRASE

Subject English

Grade X

Let us discuss it in detail:

When a word qualifies a noun or a pronoun, it is called adjective. When a group of words without having subject and predicate does the work of an adjective, it is called adjective phrase as:

1. 1. 1. 1. Of great nobility
         2. With long hair

• • • • Of short stature

1. 1. 1. 1. With blue eyes
         2. In white dress

A word that describes the traits, qualities, or number of noun or pronoun is called Adjective, but when any group of words that without subject and predicate used for adjective is called Adjective Phrase, as;

• • • • He is a man of great nobility.
      • A boy with long hair came here.
      • A boy of short stature stood there.
      • A boy with blue eyes came to meet me.
      • He lives in a house made of mud.
      • This is the page with no writing on it.
      • Life is not a bed of roses.

In the above mentioned sentence the underlined words are adjective Phrases but if the above sentences written as under then these words will defined as adjective;

• • • • He is a noble-fellow.
      • A long-haired boy came here.
      • A short-statured boy stood there.
      • A blue-eyed boy came to meet me.
      • He lives in a mud-house.
      • This is a blank
      • Life is not rosy.