Adjective Complement Example

The adjective complement consists of one or more words that serve to explain or limit an adjective, creating an adjectival phrase, that is, a set of words that have the function of an adjective.

Adjectives are words that we use to describe the characteristics of the noun in a sentence. An adjective can be complemented with other words that allow to clarify and delimit more the meaning of what is expressing, and we call the set of words that fulfill the function of the adjective adjective phrase, or construction adjectival.

Types of adjective complements:

Prepositional Complements

They are the complements formed by a preposition that modifies the adjective or that connects it with another adjective or an adverb that complements it. They are used especially when the adjectival phrase works as a complement to the predicate:

Today my sister saw green (the preposition of, modifies the adjective green)
That child has become in dire (the preposition en, modifies the adjective calamitous)
Juan is tiredin excess (here the preposition en, connects the adjective tired with an excess quantifier).

In addition, prepositional complements serve to connect a noun that modifies the adjective, functioning as a noun phrase:

With eyes sky blue
I'm sick of promises.
I feel cheerful in spring.

Adjectival complements

In this case, an adjective modifies another adjective. Among the most common adjectival complements, we find quantifiers and colors:

Home old woman still works - The house half old still works. (The middle quantifier, modifies the adjective old)
Dress blue - Dress light blue. (The adjective celestial, modifies the adjective blue)
Mirna is lazy - Mirna is somewhat loose. (The quantifier something, modifies the adjective lazy)

Adverbial complements

An adverb can also modify an adjective, but the core of the phrase is still the adverb:

It was a light White - It was a light pale white. (The adverb palely modifies the adjective white)
Juan was pale - Juan was very pale. (The adverb very modifies the pale adverb)
The fence is closed - The fence is eternally closed. (The adverb eternally modifies the adjective closed)

Complement types can be combined in a single adjectival phrase:

The ghost had a dress very ethereal luster white. (Core adjective + preposition + noun + adverb + adjective)
It was a house hundred years old (preposition + adjectival phrase + preposition + nucleus adjective)

The attributive verbs ser and estar are also considered complements of the adjective, because their function is to connect the attribute or characteristic that the adjective expresses, with the noun that it modifies:

My shoes they are new.
Your smile is radiant.
Your grandmother he was very kind.

50 examples of sentences with complements of the adjective:

1. Juan had a watch very pretty.
2. Carmelita was what's next beautiful.
3. The price it was half cheap.
4. The service It wasbad and average.
5. Car Matt black is in the parking lot.
6. Took apart the refrigerator without much fear.
7. The train was coming slow as a turtle.
8. Your ideas clear as water.
9. It was a movie which one more interesting.
10. The flag of Argentina is white and light blue.
11. The adjectival phrase is an adjective dressed in Sunday suit.
12. Being flu is tremendously annoying.
13. It seemed like a job very easy.
14. Math class seemed the sea of ​​complicated.
15. I was wearing a uniform olive green.
16. The beam annoyingly squeaky, made noise with every step.
17. The tornado left the dining room completely broken.
18. I was flying a sphere brilliantly white.
19. Your examples more interesting are at the beginning.
20. They had an armchair carved wood.
21. It was a speech absurdly stiff.
22. They were eyes of rare beauty.
23. Your skin milk white it was very smooth.
24. The tables were tightly bonded with glue.
25. Mary, from Ecuador, brought homework from him.
26. Under the mist the town was dark as night.
27. The job half finished he was also late.
28. Her fur soft like cotton.
29. Its legs fat as logs.
30. His teeth sharp as razors.
31. The classes maddeningly bored they discouraged him.
32. I had a lot of photos yellowish sepia.
33. After the rain the leaves had a color Shining green.
34. Today is a weather tremendously cold.
35. I was wearing a blouse freshly ironed.
36. Had a landscape beautiful as hell.
37. There was no way that that was a grimoire erudite complicated.
38. An elephant beautifully dressed I was walking through the city.
39. Bridesmaid no less beautiful than the bride, I'm late.
40. The engineers dumbfounded marvel they watched the victrola work.
41. In the empty room was the ghostly murmur of silence.
42. The ideas less sharp they were not heard.
43. The night totally black allowed to see the stars.
44. The stars faintly glittering studded the sky.
45. A flash fleetingly bright interrupted the quiet of the night.
46. A few meters away, a rock completely calcined opened a crater.
47. Inside the crater there was a metal between the stones of golden shine.
48. Gold of the stars, of reddish shine it amazed the locals.
49. Later they found that it had traces of iron rusted by the atmosphere.
50. Once purified, the gold was so brilliant as extracted from the mines.