LING204 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Adjective Phrase
18 Mar 2017
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Noun phrases build around : a noun: [np george] arrived early, a pronoun: [np he] arrived early. They can be replaced by a single pronoun: ex: [np george] arrived early [np he] arrived early, ex: [np the student] arrived early [np he] arrived early\ Within a noun phrase there is : the head, a determiner, a pre-determiner, a complement, pre-nominal modifier, post-nominal modifier. A noun phrase consists minimally of a head which can either be : a noun: i like [np documentaries, a pronoun: i like [np them] In english, a verb in the present tense has to agree with its subject in person and in number. Function, closed-class words that introduce nouns (the, this, these, those etc. ) Ex: i love [any cat: possessive: his, her, their, me, your, ours etc. Come before an article and are used to give more information about the noun that follows: ex: i walked [half a kilometer]
