LINGUIST 1ZZ3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Adverbial Phrase, Adpositional Phrase, Preposition And Postposition
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Identifying the heads of the np, pp, and ap. With a barely repressed sigh of resignation brian reached for the phone. Even after five years of marriage he was still unused to the petty inconveniences of sharing his life with this partner. Preposition phrase: even after, of marriage, of sharing, to the petty (maybe?) Noun phrase: five years of marriage, inconveniences, marriage. I was bowled over by the news that i had got into graduate school. Verb phrase: was bowled over by the news. Conjunction phrase: that i had got into graduate school. Head = the tabby cat, specifier = the, modifier = tabby. Note: preposition phrases can have noun phrases in them, on has more meaning than holiday . Head = on, specifier = really, complement = holiday. Specifier = always (it is a quantifier), head = manages, complement = a smile. Specifier = a, head = course, complement = on.