adjective phrase

English

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Noun

Examples
  • That house down the block is a hideous shade of red.
  • The road tarred on Thursday is the one we need to take.

adjective phrase (plural adjective phrases)

  1. (grammar) A phrase that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun and which can usually be used both attributively and predicatively, can be graded, and can include an adverbial phrase as a modifier within it.
    Hypernym: phrase
    Coordinate terms: adjective clause (relative clause); (other phrase types) adverbial phrase, conjunctional phrase, interjectional phrase, noun phrase, phrasal preposition, prepositional phrase, pronominal phrase, verb phrase

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