hello everyone how are you today I'm Marc - the lady wearing a brown hat is my
grandmother the news on TV announced a general
strike for Thursday The Mona Lisa painted by Leonardo da Vinci is displayed in to
Louvre - in this lesson we're going to take a look at adjectival phrases so
stay tuned
that's right adjectival phrases how can we describe a noun
well a noun can be described using an adjective obviously so like in a white
house or tall boy or wooden shack if you want to watch a lesson on adjectives you
may click here so we can also describe a noun using relative clauses for example
the man who called me etc etc so relative clauses what are they if you
want to watch a lesson on relative clauses you may click here and to
describe a noun we can also use adjectival phrases and adjectival
phrases are phrases whose main word is an adjective obviously so the first
group so adjectival phrases using the present participle plus an object or
adverbial you'll if you don't know what a present participle is you may click here
to watch that lesson so let's take a look at my introductory example the lady
wearing a brown hat is my grandmother which lady the lady wearing the brown
hat so wearing the brown hat describes the lady let's take a look at another
example in my dream I entered a restroom smelling of jasmine which restroom the
one smelling of jasmine jasmine is a flower so smelling of jasmine is the
adjectival phrase now the second group adjectival phrases with a preposition
plus a noun if you wish to watch a lesson on
prepositional phrases you may click here so let's take a look at my examples then
the news on TV announced a general strike for Thursday
so which news the ones on TV so on TV is the prepositional phrase that describes
the news right the noun so another example a dog with the
shaggy tail approached me to sniff my pants which dog the one with a shaggy
tail so it describes the dog so with a shaggy tail is a prepositional phrase
that describes the dog right so let's take a look at my third group adjectival
phrases with a past participle plus agent or adverbial like in my example
then the Mona Lisa painted by Leonardo da Vinci is displayed in the Louvre so
we have painted by Leonardo da Vinci painted is the past participle of paint
and it describes the Mona Lisa is more information about a noun about the Mona
Lisa let's take a look at another example then the tomb discovered last
week became of relevance after its official announcing so we have
discovered which is a past participle and then plus agent or adverbial
last week so it describes the tomb so the tomb discovered last week became of
relevance after it's official announcing now we have other types also
for example the final exams were unbelievably difficult so the final
exams were unbelievably difficult so we have an adverb unbelievably and then an
adjective then let's take a look at another
example I was extremely delighted to see you making progress in English so
extremely here is the adverb and delighted is the adjective right we can
also use superlative or comparative adjectives in adjectival phrases so
let's take a look at my example this stone is the heaviest of all this stone is
the heaviest of all so the stone which one the heaviest of all so a superlative
adjective with comparative adjectives then a person smarter than me needs to
understand this issue and explain it to me
so a person who smarter than me needs to understand this issue and explain it to
me can you rewrite these two sentences in just one the boy must have seen it he
was playing basketball with his friend so once Mahatma Gandhi said BE the
change that you want to see in the world - if you have any questions comments or if
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