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"From Minnesota" is an adjective phrase because it describes the noun it is referring to.

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How do you know if its an adjective or adverb phrase?

An adjective phrase modifies a noun or pronoun by providing more information about it, while an adverb phrase modifies a verb, adjective, or adverb by providing more information about how, when, where, or to what extent the action is performed. Identifying the word being modified can help determine if it's an adjective or adverb phrase.


Are the two kinds of prepositional phrases found in sentences adjective and adverb phrases?

Yes, prepositional phrases can function as either adjective phrases or adverb phrases in a sentence. An adjective phrase modifies a noun or pronoun, while an adverb phrase modifies a verb, adjective, or adverb.


What are the 2 jobs of a prepositional phrase?

A prepositional phrase acts as an adjective or adverb.As an adjective, the prepositional phrase will answer the question Which one?The shoe on the floor belongs to you.As an adverb, a prepositional phrase will answer questions such as How? When? Where?After class, John asked me on a date.


How can you tell an adverb prepositional phrase from an adjective prepositional phrase?

An adjective prepositional phrase describes a noun or pronoun, answering "which one?" An adverb prepositional phrase usually modifies the verb in a sentence, but it can also modify an adjective or adverb. It answers when, where, how, or to what degree. The man in the car waved. (in the car, adjective, modifies man - which man?) He jumped into the car. (into the car, adverb, modifies jumped - where did he jump?)


How do you distinguish a prepositional phrase as adverb or adjective?

You identify the word that it is modifying. If the word is a noun or pronoun, the phrase is an adjectival phrase. If the word is a verb, adjective, or adverb, it is an adverbial phrase.The usage defines the type of phrase. A large number of prepositions can be used for either an adjective or an adverb phrase depending on how they are used.

Related Questions

Is Minnesota an adjective phrase or an adverb phrase?

Minnesota is neither an adjective phrase nor an adverb phrase. Minnesota is a noun, more specifically a proper noun, a single word. A phrase is a group of words.


How do you identify adjective and adverb phrases?

If the phrase describes (modifies) a noun or pronoun, it's an adjective phrase. If the phrase describes a verb, adjective, or adverb, it's an adverb phrase.


Is ABOVE THE SURFACE. an adjective phrase or adverb phrase?

Adverb Phrase


Is of the mountain highlands adverb phrase or adjective phrase?

adverb phrase


What the difference between an adverb and an adverb phrase?

an adjective phrase acts like an adjective and modifies the noun or pronoun in the sentence. an adverb phrase acts like an adverb and modifies the verb, adjective, or adverb in the sentence.


Is in her head an adverb or adjective phrase?

It is an adverb phrase (tells where).


Is of the American Revolution an adverb phrase or an adjective phrase?

adjective phrase


Is the phrase between the chair and the wall an adjective phrase or an adverb phrase?

adverb


Is in the study hall procedures an adjective phrase or adverb?

adverb phrase


In the study study hall procedures adverb phrase or adjective phrase?

adverb phrase


Is the phrase after a supernova an adverb or an adjective phrase?

It is an adverb phrase, although in forms such as "The period after a supernova is marked by stellar collapse" it seems to be an adjective phrase.


Is the phrase he is very dumb an adjective or an adverb?

This is a sentence (or clause), not a phrase. The adjective is dumb, and the adverb is very, modifying dumb. So "very dumb" is the adjective phrase.