Descriptive Language: Adjectives, Adverbs, and Phrases - Prof. Yatmikasari, Schemes and Mind Maps of English Language

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OTHER PHRASES

Adjective

Adjectives

are

descriptive

words used

to “modify”

or tell more

about nouns

and pronouns

Presenting a blue car,

a red car and a light

brown car…

Adjective phrase consists of

• a single adjective: tall in Sally is tall
• an adjective headword and a qualifies: very tall
• more elaborate: Sally is even taller than the woman who coaches her volleyball team.

Other examples

• Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
• Tina lost her dark brown briefcase.
• Mr. Sweet was a tall, thinnish man with thick kinky hair going dead white. He was dark brown , his eyes were very squinty and sort of bluish , and he chewed Brown Mule tobacco

Adverb

• An adverb is a descriptive word that tells more about a verb, an adjective or another adverb.
• Adverbs tell how, where and when: “Yesterday, she ran quickly downtown.”
• The most commonly used adverb in English is “very.”
• Many adverbs end in “ly”: quickly, carefully, & slowly…

Adverbial Phrase

• An adverb or adverbial phrase is a word group with an adverb as its head.
• This adverb may be accompanied by modifiers or qualifiers.
• An adverb phrase can modify a verb, an adjective, another adverb, or even an entire sentence or main clause.