Adjectival Phrases

Today's lesson is on adjectival phrases.To know what adjectival phrases are, one must understand what are adjectives.

Why learn adjectives?

Adjectives are used to describe people, places, animals and things. Different kinds of adjectives provide different information about a noun.
For example, if I were to say out a hat, the kind of hat that I had imagined and the hat that you had visualised would probably be very different. Hence, adjectives are needed to create more visualisation about the hat that I am describing to you.

Now, if I were to say out, " A large, smelly, blue hat."
Does this describes the hat more?
Are you able to visualise more clearly what the hat looks like now?

Hence, adjectives are important to provide more details about the topic.
For adjectival phrases, there are several kinds of adjectival phrases.

1) Pointing words/ demonstrative adjectives.
2) Possessive adjectives
3) Adjectives of quantity
4) Adjectives of quality
5) Comparing adjectives


Are you able to make out sentences using adjectival phrases? This is the question that I asked the students before their activity. Students are then grouped into fours to play a simple "game". Each pupil will have a paper like this,

Each slip of paper consists of lost items and their partners are to use adjectival phrases to tell them where the items are.

Students at "work", finding lost items.

I hope the students liked this activity that I created for them.

Mr Xie.