Adjectival phrase

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An adjectival phrase or adjective phrase (AP) is a phrase with an adjective as its head. Just as a regular one-word adjective, adjective phrases are used to modify nouns or pronouns. That is to say, they give "an additional detail about the meaning of a noun" ^[1] It is important to remember that the predicate can also be right before the noun or as the complement after a linking verb. Adjective phrases can be formed by: 1. Two adjectives

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"The nice, pretty, gorgeous girl" - Here we have an adjective phrase with three heads modifying the noun girl.

2. An intensifier + an adjective

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i bought a pound of jellybeans

of jellybeans is an adjective preposition because its asking what kind of pound- a pound of jelly beans

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