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    This document provides an overview of linguistic grammar, focusing on sentence constituents including noun phrases and verb phrases. It defines a noun phrase as consisting of a noun and its modifiers. A sentence is made up of a noun phrase and a verb phrase, with the noun phrase being the subject and the verb phrase being the predicate. Examples are provided of different types of noun phrases and how to identify verb phrases in sentences.

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    This document provides an overview of linguistic grammar, focusing on sentence constituents including noun phrases and verb phrases. It defines a noun phrase as consisting of a noun and its modifiers. A sentence is made up of a noun phrase and a verb phrase, with the noun phrase being the subject and the verb phrase being the predicate. Examples are provided of different types of noun phrases and how to identify verb phrases in sentences.

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    Overview of

    Linguistic Grammar
    E LT 3 11 - C H A P T E R 8

    Presented by:
    CODILLA, Jane Kiana
    POSTRANO, Aileen Jean
    Identify the basic forms of sentence constituents
    01
     Noun Phrase

     Verb Phrase

    Locate the sentence constituents in a sentence


    02
     Locating Noun Phrase in a sentence

     Identifying verb phrase in a sentence

    Construct sentences that consists a noun and verb


    phrases
    03
    BASIC UNITS
    of the sentence

    Sentence = Noun Phrase + Verb Phrase


    This means to say that the very basic unit of a sentence are the Subject
    (topic of the sentence) and Predicate (action of the subject).
    Noun Phrase
    PHRASE
    refers to a group of words that functions as a unit within
    NOUN PHRASE the sentence
    Simply noun and its modifier.

    HEADWORD
    Every phrase’s characteristic

    NOUN
    NOUN
    Syntactically speaking, nouns are name
    PHRASE of a person, place, thing or an event.
    NP = Determiner + NOUN

    The Girl SIGNALERS


    The Determiner

    OVERVIEW OF LINGUISTIC GRAMMAR


    PRE-HEAD

    NP = Determiner + (adjective) + (noun) + NOUN +


    (prepositional phrase) + (participial phrase) +
    (relative clause)

    POSTHEAD

    Noun Phrase are grammatical without them

    OVERVIEW OF LINGUISTIC GRAMMAR


    E
    X
    A small race car with a red
    strip zooming by that I saw.

    A
    M
    The quick brown dog jumped
    over the lazy cat.

    P The strong independent


    woman.

    L The box in the attic is full of

    E
    memories.

    OVERVIEW OF LINGUISTIC GRAMMAR


    OVERVIEW OF LINGUISTIC GRAMMAR

    The little old man. SUBJECT


    DIRECT OBJECT

    INDIRECT OBJECT
    Absolutely Perfect day
    SUBJECT or OBJECT COMPLIMENT

    OBJECT OF THE PREPOSITION


    The beautify damsel
    APPOSITIVE

    Fluffy white cat


    NOMINALS
    CHARACTERISTICS

    COMPONENT 1 COMPONENT 2 COMPONENT 3 COMPONENT 3

    Movable Participles Movable Adjectives Appositives Absolute Phrases


    (-ing, -ed, -en) Preheadword modifier Contents Here Most sophisticated of stylistic devices
    You can simply impress Can make stylistic Can be thought as a You can simply impress
    your audience and add a statement when it is combination of adjectival your audience and add a
    unique zing. compounded and placed and nominal. unique zing.
    after the head word

    The incumbent, having The unfamiliar neighborhood, The old house, an abandoned The snowstorm showing no
    collected huge campaign dark and still, felt strangely Victorian with peeling paint, signs of abating, school was
    contributions, won by a ominous. adds to the ominous feeling of cancelled for the third day in
    landslide. the neighborhood. a row.
    OVERVIEW OF LINGUISTIC GRAMMAR
    V E R B
    P H R A S E
    INTRANSITIVE VERB

    LINKING VERB
    SENTENCE=
    Noun Phrase + TRANSITIVE VERB
    Verb Phrase
    He is eating an apple.

    They celebrated the Buwan ng Wika last week.

    Holy Cross of Davao college is owned by the


    archdiocese of Davao.

    EX AMPLE They are playing chess.

    Have you been sitting on my chair?


    Verb Phrase always includes a finite verb
    EXAMPLE #1
    The prisoner escaped again.

    PRESENT TENSE

    EXAMPLE #2
    Sarah is crying again.

    PAST TENSE

    EXAMPLE #3
    They write letters.
    Non finite verbs
    DEFINITION
    Cannot be the main verb, they do not indicate tenses

    GERUNDS (-ing) that function as a noun


    Running is good for your heart.
    He hates waking up early.

    INFINITIVES (verbals; to+verb) (why the action is done?)


    The students studied very hard to pass the exam
    Now it’s your turn!
    Get paper and pen then construct your own sentences
    and label NOUN and VERB PHRASE in the sentence!

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