• Adding Adjectives and Adverbs to the Basic Sentence Unit

• Adjectival
• Adjective Clause
• Degree Modifier
• Phrase
• Prepositional Phrase
• Sentence Building With Adjectives and Adverbs

Examples and Observations:

• Merdine opened a sweet young coconut.
• "Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals."
  (Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, 2007)
• Buddy thinks the shampoo tastes awfully funny.
• Tony lost his dark brown briefcase.
• After Don's accident, his behavior grew stranger and stranger.
• "An adjective phrase consists of an adjective which may be preceded and/or followed by other words. The premodifier is always an adverb phrase, but the post-modifiers can be an adverb phrase, a prepositional phrase, or even a clause. It is also possible to have a modifier that is partly in front and partly behind the head, called a discontinuous modifier, abbreviated as disc-mod."
  (Marjolijn Verspoor and Kim Sauter, English Sentence Analysis: An Introductory Course. John Benjamins, 2000)
• "Marge, you're as pretty as Princess Leia and as smart as Yoda."
  (Homer Simpson)

• "There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary."
  (Brendan Behan)
• Noun Phrases and Adjective Phrases
  "There may be very little difference between a noun phrase and an adjective phrase in structures where the adjectives occur before the word it qualifies. Most noun phrases consist of a head noun plus one or more adjectives, or indeed an adjective phrase itself. Consider the examples in a, below.

  a. [ADJECTIVE PHRASES]
  'It was cold, bleak, bitingweather.'
  
  'He's an extraordinary lookingman, and yet I can really name nothing out of the way.'
  
  'In Beijing these days, one of the fastest-growingfortunes the world has ever seen is managed by fewer than two-dozentraders.'
  
  'This was a hearty, healthy, dapper, red-facedgentleman, with a shock of hair prematurely white, and a boisterous and decided manner.'

  In each of these examples, if we include the italicized head nouns, we have noun phrases with embedded adjective phrases; without the head nouns, we have adjective phrases. The focus is always on the head word (HW)."
  (Bernard O'Dwyer, Modern English Structures: Form, Function, and Position. Broadview, 2006)
• Phrases Within Phrases
  "[C]onsider . . . our example:

  The young man picked the best bloom from the very delicate orchid.

  The sequence from the very delicate orchid is a prepositional phrase. The prepositional phrase consists of a noun phrase and a preposition. One can demonstrate that the sequence from the very delicate orchid is a coherent group of words by moving it as in:

  From the very delicate orchid the young man picked the best bloom.

  The word very is an intensifying adverb and it modifies delicate to form an adjective phrase within the noun phrase within the prepositional phrase. This phrase-within-a-phrase structure is shown by bracketing below:

  [The young man] picked the best bloom [from [the [very delicate] orchid]].

  We could add very carefully to this sentence. Since carefully is an adverb and very is an intensifying adverb modifying it, very carefully would be an adverb phrase."
  (Barry J. Blake, All About Language. Oxford University Press, 2008)