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    The document identifies and provides examples of different structures used to modify nouns in sentences, including: 1) restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses, apposition, and participial clauses; 2) premodification structures like adjectives, participles, genitives, and nouns; and 3) additional structures like participle clauses used as adverbs, WH-adverbial clauses, passive voice, infinitive clauses, and nominal clauses. It aims to exercise the identification of various noun modification structures in examples discussing the topic of plastic pollution in oceans and its impacts.

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    The document identifies and provides examples of different structures used to modify nouns in sentences, including: 1) restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses, apposition, and participial clauses; 2) premodification structures like adjectives, participles, genitives, and nouns; and 3) additional structures like participle clauses used as adverbs, WH-adverbial clauses, passive voice, infinitive clauses, and nominal clauses. It aims to exercise the identification of various noun modification structures in examples discussing the topic of plastic pollution in oceans and its impacts.

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    The document identifies and provides examples of different structures used to modify nouns in sentences, including: 1) restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses, apposition, and participial clauses; 2) premodification structures like adjectives, participles, genitives, and nouns; and 3) additional structures like participle clauses used as adverbs, WH-adverbial clauses, passive voice, infinitive clauses, and nominal clauses. It aims to exercise the identification of various noun modification structures in examples discussing the topic of plastic pollution in oceans and its impacts.

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    The document identifies and provides examples of different structures used to modify nouns in sentences, including: 1) restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses, apposition, and participial clauses; 2) premodification structures like adjectives, participles, genitives, and nouns; and 3) additional structures like participle clauses used as adverbs, WH-adverbial clauses, passive voice, infinitive clauses, and nominal clauses. It aims to exercise the identification of various noun modification structures in examples discussing the topic of plastic pollution in oceans and its impacts.

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    Exercise 1: Identify the following structures of POSTMODIFICATION of nouns

    a) restrictive relative clauses


    the greater story that unfolded further away in the world’s oceans
    the behaviors that cause pollution
    the report Plastics in the Ocean: More Than a Litter Problem, which was the first study ...

    b) non-restrictive relative clauses


    Tons of plastic debris (which by definition are waste that can vary in size from large
    containers...)

    c) sentential relative clauses


    the number consumed annually, which is about a million a minute.
    the equivalent of throwing away 12 million gallons of oil, which seems an intolerable waste.

    d) apposition (appositive NPs or clauses)


    “garbage patches”, i.e. larges masses of ever-accumulating floating debris fields across the
    seas.
    i.e. connecting adverbial 🡪 From the Latin expression id est, which means ‘that is’.

    the report of Japanese chemist Katsuhiko Saido...

    measures to ban or curtail the use of plastic bags 🡪 The head of the appositive clause must
    be an abstract noun

    the Japan Environmental Action Network (JEAN)


    the International Coastal Cleanup (ICC)
    the report Plastics in the Ocean: More Than a Litter Problem,...

    e) postmodification of nouns by –ing participle clause


    piles of colorful plastic remaining where there stomachs had been.
    seabirds choosing plastic pieces, red, pink, brown and blue...
    scientific cruise-expeditions collecting seawater samples...

    f) postmodification of nouns by –ed participle clause


    Our voracious appetite for plastics, coupled with a culture of discarding products
    the number consumed annually
    The petroleum used to make only 14 plastic bags
    Litter caused by the notorious bags
    lack of financial resources affected to the cause.
    The data collected and analyzed from the annual ICC Cleanup...
    g) postmodification of nouns by to infinitive clause
    measures to ban or curtail the use of plastic bags
    action to solve the problem

    h) postmodification of a noun by prepositional phrases (some examples)


    combination of lethal nature for our environment.
    poor practices of solid waste management
    a lack of infrastructure

    i) postmodification of a noun by adverb phrases


    Most of the littered plastic waste worldwide...

    j) multiple modification
    the greatest, most unprecedented, plastic waste tide
    Slow, silent, omnipresent, ever increasing, more toxic than previously thought, the plastic
    pollution’s reality
    National and international manual clean-up operations of shorelines and sea floor
    yearly beach cleanup and survey

    Exercise 2: Identify the following structures of PREMODIFICATION of nouns

    a) Adjectives (SOME simple adjectives and compound adjectives)


    colorful plastic
    stomach-size plastic piles
    garbage patches
    ever-accumulating floating debris

    b) Participles
    culture of discarding products
    encouraging trend
    floating debris

    c) -s genitive
    plastic pollution’s reality
    world’s oceans
    world’s beaches

    d) Nouns (some of them)


    plastic pollution spectacle
    bird corpses

    e) Sentences
    adopt-a-beach programs

    Exercise 3: Identify the following structures

    ED participle clause as Adv


    Washed out on our coasts in obvious and clearly visible form, the plastic pollution spectacle...
    Swirled by currents, plastic litter accumulates....

    WH-adverbial clause as Adv. of place


    piles of colorful plastic remaining where there stomachs had been.

    Passive voice (there are many instances of passive voice)


    Litter caused by the notorious bags has been referred to as “white pollution.”

    TO infinitive clause as adv. of purpose


    ... to fill the Empire State Building two and a half tim

    That nominal clause as DO


    the plastics industry argues that jobs will disappear

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