An adjectival phrase is a phrase with an adjective as its head (e.g. ''full of toys''). Adjectival phrases may occur as ''premodifiers'' to a noun (''a bin full of toys''), or as ''predicatives'' to a verb (''the bin is full of toys'').
Removed: ''Slowly becoming aware of the spittle running out of the corner of his mouth Hayden opened his eyes and stared at the dull light from the computer screen splashed across the ceiling. Stretching his limbs in all four directions he squeezed out the tightness of sleep from them while his office chair creaked in protest, voicing the stiffness in his legs and back. Shifting his balance to lean the chair forward and sit up straight again, he rubbed his eyes of sleep and tried to focus on the ward* blinking at him'' This may have adjectival phrases in it, but it's not a good way of describing what they are. User:-- April Also, it looks like it might be copyrighted, like from the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest or something. --User:Lee Daniel Crocker Do adj. phrases necesarily need to start with an adj? (struggling to think of an example)... -- User:Tarquin Adjectival phrases, more properly adjective phrases are prepositional phrases that modifies a noun or pronoun. In "tightness of sleep", the "of sleep" is an adjective phrase. I think it's the only one in the passage. The other kinds are participial phrases, gerund phrases, infinitive phrases and apposite phrases, according to the first grammar book at hand.User:Ortolan88 Every sentence in this example begins with a gerund phrase, but they're all adverbial rather than adjectival. --LDC
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An adjectival phrase is a phrase with an adjective as its head (e.g. ''full of toys''). Adjectival phrases may occur as ''premodifiers'' to a noun (''a bin full of toys''), or as ''predicatives'' to a verb (''the bin is full of toys'').
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Removed: ''Slowly becoming aware of the spittle running out of the corner of his mouth Hayden opened his eyes and stared at the dull light from the computer screen splashed across the ceiling. Stretching his limbs in all four directions he squeezed out the tightness of sleep from them while his office chair creaked in protest, voicing the stiffness in his legs and back. Shifting his balance to lean the chair forward and sit up straight again, he rubbed his eyes of sleep and tried to focus on the ward* blinking at him'' This may have adjectival phrases in it, but it's not a good way of describing what they are. User:-- April Also, it looks like it might be copyrighted, like from the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest or something. --User:Lee Daniel Crocker Do adj. phrases necesarily need to start with an adj? (struggling to think of an example)... -- User:Tarquin Adjectival phrases, more properly adjective phrases are prepositional phrases that modifies a noun or pronoun. In "tightness of sleep", the "of sleep" is an adjective phrase. I think it's the only one in the passage. The other kinds are participial phrases, gerund phrases, infinitive phrases and apposite phrases, according to the first grammar book at hand.User:Ortolan88 Every sentence in this example begins with a gerund phrase, but they're all adverbial rather than adjectival. --LDC
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