An adjectival phrase (AP) is a phrase with an adjective (e.g., full of toys). Adjectival phrases may occur as postmodifiers to a noun (a bin full of toys), or as predicatives (predicate adjectives) to a verb (the bin is full of toys). Look up phrase in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In grammar, an adjective is a word whose main syntactic role is to modify a noun or pronoun (called the adjectives subject), giving more information about what the noun or pronoun refers to. ...
Adjectival phrases give more detail to a noun. They can become arbitrarily long, and in some languages they tend to become quite complex.
Examples
red (rose)
red, big (rose)
red, big, reminding me of my former love (rose)
red, big, filling my senses with sorrow, reminding me of my former love (rose)
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Similarly, possessive adjectives, such as his or her, are sometimes called determinative possessive pronouns, and demonstrative adjectives, such as this or that, determinative demonstratives.
In English, an adjectivalphrase may occur as a postmodifier to a noun (a bin full of toys), or as a predicate to a verb (the bin is full of toys and clothes).
A predicative adjective is not part of the noun phrase headed by the noun it modifies; rather, it is the complement of a verb or copula that links it to the noun.
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