English Grammar: a resource Book for Students
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English Grammar- A Resource Book for Students
Activity A3.2
✪ Activity A3.3 ✪ N O U N P H R A S E S A N D D E T E R M I N E R S 17 TERMINOLOGY In some approaches to English grammar the term ‘complement’ has a much wider interpretation. Combinations involving more than one of the above types of postmodification are possible. In such cases noun phrases can become extremely long: . . . a man in a red overcoat who was holding a gun in his left hand. Here the noun phrase, whose head is man, contains several other noun phrases: a red overcoat, a gun, and his left hand, all with their own head nouns. This is the concept of recursion. Sentences may be composed of very long noun phrases involving several instances of such recursion; we will see examples of this in C10. Another type of postmodification is ‘apposition’: this is where a noun phrase is placed next to another to show a relationship of identity. (Clauses can also be used in apposition to a noun phrase – see A10.) This is particularly common with a proper noun followed by a description or explanation of it: Malcolm Fox , the boy’s father , was delighted. For almost a hundred years after her death, Emma Hamilton (1765–1815), Nelson’s celebrated mistress , was airbrushed from the official record. Identify the head noun and postmodifier in the noun phrases below, all taken from this section. Remember that one way to identify a head is to pluralise (or ‘singularise’) a noun phrase if possible and to see which word changes. 1. postmodification with a particular preposition 2. the following prepositional phrase 3. a very inefficient and limiting system of communication 4. very long noun phrases involving several instances of such recursion Download 1.74 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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