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developments is the structural devices used to modify noun phrase. In English, noun phrase modifiers can occur before the head noun, pre-modifiers, or after the head noun, post modifiers. From a functional point of view, the noun phrase has four major components, occurring in a fixed order: 1. The determinative, that constituent which determines the reference of the noun phrase in its linguistic or situational context, 2. Pre-modification, which comprises all the modifying or describing constituents before the head, other than the determiners, 3. The head, around which the other constituents cluster, and 4. Post-modification, those which comprise all the modifying constituents placed after the head. In the figure 2.1, notice that each functional component of a noun phrase NP can be further sub classified. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI Figure 2.1 Diagram of noun phrase papyr.com PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI Depending on the context of situation, specifically, the current study discover the noun phrase pre-modification and noun phrase post-modification. The scope and explanation are then presented. Nouns are rarely stand alone, they are usually accompanied by modifiers. Noun stands at the head of the noun phrase. It dictates which modifiers can be used and it carries a heavy semantic load. Noun modifiers are generally much more common in informational written register like academic prose or newspaper reportage than in other registers de Hann 1989, Halliday 1988, Varantola 1984. Overall, pre-modifiers and post-modifiers are about equally common Biber, 1999 p. 578. The first form of noun phrase is noun pre-modification. It is consists of 4 forms Mukarto, 2010. a. Determiner + Noun Headwords b. Determiner + Adjective + Noun Headwords c. Determiner + Adjective + Noun + Noun Headwords d. Determiner + Participle + Noun Headwords The next form of noun phrase is noun post-modification form. It is also consist of 4 forms. a. Noun Headwords + Relative Adjective Clause b. Noun Headwords + Participle c. Noun Headwords + Prepositional Phrase d. Noun Headwords + To infinitive