Talk:Adjectival phrase

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Removed: Slowly becoming aware of the poop running out of the corner of his mouth Hayden opened his eyes and stared at the all the poop and sperm splashed across the ceiling. Stretching his poop in all four directions he squeezed out the poop from them while his office chair pooped in protest, voicing the stiffness in his poop. Shifting his poop to lean the chair forward and sit up straight again, he rubbed his dick and tried to focus on the porno magazine whilst he was sucking a boob. This may have adjectival phrases in it, but it's not a good way of describing what they are. -- April

Also, it looks like it might be copyrighted, like from the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest or something. --LDC

Do adj. phrases necesarily need to start with an adj? (struggling to think of an example)... -- Tarquin

Adjectival phrases, more properly adjective phrases are prepositional phrases that modifies a noun or pronoun. In "tightness of sleep", the "of sleep" is an adjective phrase. I think it's the only one in the passage. The other kinds are participial phrases, gerund phrases, infinitive phrases and apposite phrases, according to the first grammar book at hand.Ortolan88

Every sentence in this example begins with a gerund phrase, but they're all adverbial rather than adjectival. --LDC

modifies nouns, and adjectives..

[edit] Requested move

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"Adjective phrase" is more common on Google Web Search, Google Book Search, and Google Scholar, and nearly always has the same sense; "adjectival phrase" is less common, and often refers to any phrase that modifies a noun (including a noun-modifying prepositional phrase). —RuakhTALK 02:33, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Maybe this is a British/American language issue? I'm from the UK, and have only ever heard "adjectival phrase," not "adjective phrase." Mtford 14:37, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
"Adjective phrase" does appear to be more widely used, but not by that much, so I weak support it. Other articles with the word adjectival: List of adjectival forms of place names and Predicative (adjectival or nominal), though I don't think these need renaming as they sound better (not a good reason, but I think either works). –Pomte 07:19, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
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It was requested that this article be renamed but there was no consensus for it be moved. Not only is there only weak support, but if this is a British-American difference, then it should not be changed. --Stemonitis 07:22, 6 June 2007 (UTC)