Head + Post-modifier The Types of Noun Phrases
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prepositional phrase
of the house
indicates the use of post-modification with the preposition
of
followed by the noun phrase
the house
.
5. Head + Post-modifier
This type of structure only contains post-modifier in order to modify the head of noun phrase. The post-modifiers that is used in this structure type are
prepositional phrase, non-finite clause, and finite clause. There are total 38 noun phrases found in the utterances with 5.3 occurrence in the novel. The examples
of this type of noun phrases are as follow. 32
One
+ of the most mundanes I’ve ever encountered page 29
H PP In noun phrase 32, it has the noun
one
as the head of the noun phrases. The use of
of
construction after the head of noun phrase indicates that this type of noun phrase uses prepositional phrase as the post-modifier. Although this type of
noun phrase only consist of head and the post- modification, it isn’t always limited
by the use of phrases inside the main phrases that is analyzed. In the prepositional phrase
of
the most mundanes I’ve ever encountered with preposition
of
as the head of the phrase, it can be seen that it is followed by another noun phrases
the most
mundanes I’ve ever encountered as the complement of the phrase. The definite article
the
is the determiner followed by the adjective
most
as the pre-modifier and the plural noun
mundanes
as the head and finite clause I’ve ever encountered as the
post-modifier of that noun phrase. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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33
Anything
+
strong enough
page 58 H NF Clause
Noun phrase 33 shows that in order to modify the head anything, the post modification of the phrase used in this noun phrase structure is nonfinite clause
strong enough
indicated by the absence of the subject and the verb in the clause. 34
Things
+ that aren’t their fault page 111
H F Clause Noun phrase 34 is almost similar to noun phrase 33 except that the post-
modifier of this structure type is finite clause that aren’t their fault in order to
modify the head that is plural noun
things
.
6. Determiner + Pre-modifier + Head + Post-modifier