The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday identified the inmate who died in custody on Tuesday as Sean Michael Alexander, 33, of Pismo Beach.
An adjective phrase (or adjectival phrase) is a phrase that tells us something about the noun it is modifying.The head (principal) word in an adjective phrase will be an adjective. In the examples below, the adjective phrase is shaded and the head word (i.e., the adjective) is in bold:n adjective phrase (or adjectival phrase) is a phrase that tells us something about the noun it is modifying.
phrase noun [ C ] (GRAMMAR) âº language a group of words that is part of, rather than the whole of, a sentence. Examples. an adverbial phrase. an adjectival phrase. The phrase a not unfamiliar situation is an example of a double negative. The phrase a hard frost is a collocation. In grammar, an adjunct is an adverb or adverbial phrase that gives extra information in a sentence.