Lesson Planning of Adjective Phrases
Subject English
Grade 9th
Students` Learning Outcomes
- By the end of this lesson students will know about the word Adjective Phrase.
Information for Teachers
- Read the following Sentences:
- A boy met me yesterday.
- A boy with blue eyes met me yesterday.
- He tells a tale.
- He tells a tale with the ring of truth in it
- In the first and third sentences, we have a single noun (a person or a thing), and in the second and fourth sentences we have a group of words describing that person or thing. These group of words act as an adjective and are, therefore, adjective phrases
- So we can say: an adjective phrase is a group of words that act as an adjective for qualifying a noun or pronoun. It may be in the subject part or in the predicate part.
- Read the following Adjectives and the Adjective Phrases that are same in meaning.
Adjectives |
Adjectives Phrases |
A blank page A heavy load. A black coat. A golden crown A white elephant A jungle track The Pakistani flag
|
A page with no writing on it. A load of great weight. A coat of black colour. A crown made of gold. An elephant of white colour. A track through the Jungle. The flag of Pakistan |
- When a word qualifies a noun or 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;
Adjectives |
Adjectives Phrases |
Of great nobility With long hair Of short stature With blue eyes In white dress. A smiling face The longest day A kind man A purple shirt |
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 looks cute in white dress. A face with a smile on it. The day of great length. The man with kind nature A shirt of purple colour. |
Assessment
- Identify the Adjective Phrase in the following sentences:
- A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Ahmad is a lad of great promise.
- A stitch in time saves nine.
- A man in great difficulties came to me for help.
- He bore a banner with a strange device.
- He wore a turban made of silk.
- Ali is a man of senses.
- I met an old man from a cottage.
- He is a man without a friend.
- It is of no use.
- He has done a deed of shame.
- Indeed
- of great promise
- in time
- in great difficulties
- with a strange device
- made of silk
- of senses.
- from a cottage
- without a friend
- of no use
- of shame.