Saturday, July 21, 2007

Adjectival phrase

An adjectival phrase (AP) is a phrase with an adjective (e.g., full of toys). Adjectival phrases may occur as postmodifiers to a noun (a bin full of toys), or as predicatives to a verb (the bin is full of toys).

Adjectival phrases give more detail to a noun. They can become arbitrarily long, and in some languages they tend to become quite complex
Examples
# ed (rose)
# red, big (rose)
# red, big, reminding me of my former love (rose)
# red, big, filling my senses with sorrow, reminding me of my former love (rose)

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