单词 | adjective phrase |
释义 | > as lemmasadjective phrase adjective phrase n. a phrase whose head is an adjective. ΚΠ 1794 Chambaud's Gram. French Tongue (ed. 11) 246 The predicate of such phrases is always either a mere adjective, or an adjective phrase, that is, a whole sentence, or a substantive used adjectively. 1904 W. H. Maxwell Elem. Gram. v. 66 When a phrase is used, like the adjective, to modify a noun or pronoun, it is called an adjective phrase. 2003 New Yorker 31 Mar. 78/3 A language is considered ‘head first’ if the ‘head’ of a phrase—the noun in a noun phrase, the adjective in an adjective phrase—comes first. < as lemmas |
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