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Adjective Phrases
An adjective phrase is a prepositional phrase that is used like a single adjective.
Single Adjective: Main street is a wide street. (Wide tells what kind of street.)
Adjective Phrase: Main street is a street with four lanes. (With four lanes tells what kind of street.)
Adjective phrases:
 | Answer the questions Which one? or What kind? about a noun or pronoun. |
Which One?: The boy on the left is Mary's brother. (Which boy is Mary's brother? - The one on the left.)
What Kind?: This is a chest without any drawers. (What kind of a chest?- One without any drawers.)
| Are located right after the noun or pronoun they describe or modify. |
On the left modifies
boy and is located right after it.Without any drawers modifies chest and is located right after it.
| A sentence may have more than one adjective phrase. |
The package with the red bow is for a friend of the family
| An adjective phrase can modify a noun or pronoun in another phrase |
We learned so much from the movie about the transportation of the past is very interesting.
About the transportation tells which movie and of the past tells what kind of transportation.
Practice locating adjective phrases.