Lesson Planning of Adjective Phrases

 

Lesson Planning of Adjective Phrases

Subject English

Grade 9^th

^{Students` Learning Outcomes}

• By the end of this lesson students will know about the word Adjective Phrase.

Information for Teachers

• Read the following Sentences:

1. A boy met me yesterday.
2. A boy with blue eyes met me yesterday.
3. He tells a tale.
4. 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:

1. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
2. Ahmad is a lad of great promise.
3. A stitch in time saves nine.
4. A man in great difficulties came to me for help.
5. He bore a banner with a strange device.
6. He wore a turban made of silk.
7. Ali is a man of senses.
8. I met an old man from a cottage.
9. He is a man without a friend.
10. It is of no use.
11. He has done a deed of shame.