Doubt about adjective phrase
I have seen some explanation about adjective phrases, and all of them says that in an adjective phrase, the head (principal word) will be an adjective, such as: The shoes are unbelievably expensive.
However, "unbelievably ", isn't an adjective, it's an adverb, and since adjectives can't modify other adjectives, how can it be an adjective?
So, my doubt is: Is every adjective phrase formed by an adverb + adjective, for example:
She is very beautiful. ?
Top answer
Prodigy all of them says that in an adjective phrase, the head ( principal word) will be an adjective The principal word of a grammatical phrase is not always the first word. Prodigy The shoes are unbelievably expensive . If the underlined word is supposed to be the head, this is wrong.
- Prodigy all of them says that in an adjective phrase, the head ( principal word) will be an adjective The principal word of a grammatical phrase is not always the first word.
- Prodigy The shoes are unbelievably expensive .
- If the underlined word is supposed to be the head, this is wrong.
- The adjective phrase is 'unbelievably expensive', and the head is 'expensive'.
- The adverb 'unbelievably' is an adverb modifier of the head adjective 'expensive'.
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Prodigyall of them says that in an adjective phrase, the head (principal word) will be an adjective
The principal word of a grammatical phrase is not always the first word.
ProdigyThe shoes are unbelievably expensive.
If the underlined word is supposed to be the head, this is wrong.
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