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.
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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