Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 1K views

    Noun Phrase

    Uploaded by

    Jessica Nivashini
    The document defines and provides examples of noun phrases. It explains that a noun phrase consists of a noun or pronoun as the main word, and may include determiners and modifiers before or after the main word. Determiners introduce the noun phrase, while pre-modifiers come before the main word and post-modifiers follow it. The document provides various examples of noun phrases and the components they may contain.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Noun Phrase

    Uploaded by

    Jessica Nivashini
    1K views9 pages
    The document defines and provides examples of noun phrases. It explains that a noun phrase consists of a noun or pronoun as the main word, and may include determiners and modifiers before or after the main word. Determiners introduce the noun phrase, while pre-modifiers come before the main word and post-modifiers follow it. The document provides various examples of noun phrases and the components they may contain.

    Original Description:

    noun phrase, modifier, determiner

    Original Title

    Noun phrase

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    The document defines and provides examples of noun phrases. It explains that a noun phrase consists of a noun or pronoun as the main word, and may include determiners and modifiers before or after the main word. Determiners introduce the noun phrase, while pre-modifiers come before the main word and post-modifiers follow it. The document provides various examples of noun phrases and the components they may contain.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pptx, pdf, or txt
    1K views9 pages

    Noun Phrase

    Uploaded by

    Jessica Nivashini
    The document defines and provides examples of noun phrases. It explains that a noun phrase consists of a noun or pronoun as the main word, and may include determiners and modifiers before or after the main word. Determiners introduce the noun phrase, while pre-modifiers come before the main word and post-modifiers follow it. The document provides various examples of noun phrases and the components they may contain.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pptx, pdf, or txt
    of 9
    At a glance
    Powered by AI
    The passage discusses the structure and components of noun phrases including determiners, pre-modifiers and post-modifiers.

    A noun phrase consists of a main noun and can include determiners that introduce the noun as well as pre-modifiers and post-modifiers that provide additional information about the noun.

    A noun phrase can have pre-modifiers that come before the main noun or post-modifiers that come after. Pre-modifiers include adjectives and relative clauses. Post-modifiers include prepositional phrases and relative clauses.

    Noun Phrase

    • Main word is either a noun or a pronoun


    • The structure of a noun phrase is presented as
    Pre- Post-
    Determiners Noun
    modifiers modifiers
    • Determiners, pre-modifiers and/or post-modifiers
    may not be present in a noun phrase.
    • Determiners : words used to introduce the noun
    phrase
    • Modifiers : dependent on the main word
    – pre-modifier comes before the main word
    – Post-modifier comes after the main word
    Examples
    Noun (head)
    1.
    president

    Determiner Noun
    2.
    The president

    3. Pre-modifier Noun
    terrible tragedy

    4. Determiner Pre-modifier Noun


    An agonising death
    5. Noun Post-modifier
    studies on teaching politeness

    6. Determiner Noun Post-modifier


    a fortune on a lottery

    7. Pre-modifier Noun Post-modifier


    eponymous label in 2015

    8. Determiner Pre-modifier Noun Post-modifier


    a young labourer from West
    Bengal
    Determiners
    • There are three classes of determiners
    Pre-determiner Central determiners Post-determiners

    twice, five times, a, an, the, this, that, One, first, last, few,
    half, rather, such, these, those, several, many
    all, both
    • All the burdens • the questionnaire • the five teachers
    • Both those pages • these utterances • the many books
    Modifiers
    • A noun phrase may have a pre-modifier or post-
    modifier or both. Some noun phrases might have
    more than one pre-modifier or post-modifier.
    Pre-modifier
    • The high-profile biopic roles of Jackie Robinson
    • A little sweetened juice.
    Post-modifier
    • Seven pairs of tickets in the HBO Ultimate Oscars
    Experience Contest.
    Relative clauses
    • Relative clause is also a common type of post-modifier.
    Uses relative pronouns such as who, which, whose or
    that.
    Example:
    • He came out with his debut album You and Me
    which was a mix of pop, folk and country music.
    1a) He came out with his debut album You and Me.
    1b) The album was a mix of pop, folk and country
    music.
    Appositive clauses
    • The appositive clause is also often found
    embedded in a noun phrase. This type of clause is
    introduced by the conjunction that:
    – The usual claim that this market failure can be
    corrected….
    – The problem that constitutes impoliteness is….
    – The feeling that it would not happen
    • The conjunction that in appositive clauses is
    different from the relative that.
    • The appositive clause can be a sentence
    without that
    – The FBI was so caught up in the Russia probe that
    it failed to heed signs.
    • However, a relative clause needs the relative
    that to be a sentence
    – The Berjaya Sompo Insurance Berhad launched
    Sompo Health Hospitalisation & Surgical
    Insurance, a first-of-its-kind plan that offers
    medical coverage for surgical implants.
    References
    • Agense France-Presse. (2018, February 19). Screaming
    Mummy on display in Egypt. theSun , p. 7.
    • Agense France-Presse. (2018, February 19). Trump slams
    FBI over school shooting. theSun , p. 6.
    • Indra, S. (2018, February 19). Loving his calling. theSun , p.
    15. Retrieved from http://eltj.oxfordjournals.org/
    • Mugford, G. (2007). How rude! Teaching impoliteness in the
    second-language classroom. ELT Journal Vol 62 (4) , 375-
    384.
    • Nury, V. (2018, February 19). Reward from the universe.
    theSun , p. 18.
    • Win a Trip to the Oscars. (2018, February 19). theSun , p.
    15.

    You might also like