Adjectival Phrase Essay

CONTEXT

1. Introduction – Phrases in English Language...................................................3

1.2. Phrase Types.............................................................................................3

2. Adjectival Phrase............................................................................................5
2.1. Structure of the Adjectival Phrase.................................................................5
2.2. Function of the Adjectival Phrase.................................................................6
3. Premodifiers and Postmodifiers of Adjectival Phrase.....................................7
3.1. Premodifiers of Adjectival Phrase................................................................7
3.2. Postmodifiers of Adjectival Phrase..............................................................8
Literature............................................................................................................10

1. Introduction: phrases in English language

If we consider a sentence like the one below:

(The)__________seem(s) all right.

We will notice that we can fill in the blank with words like John, diligence, or dog, so these words are nouns. We’ll notice that each of these nouns seems to occupy more or less the same function in the sentence: it’s “the thing that seems”. Of course, we’re not going to get a sentence like Dog seems all right. We need The dog or The old dog, or the old dog on the doorstep, or even the old dog that I saw yesterday. What this shows is that groups of words can have the same function in a sentence as a single word. A word or a group of words that has a particular function in a sentence is called a phrase. Sentences are divided into multiple phrases, and the difficulty for most people is in identifying where each phrase begins and ends. The sentence