Modification :12th meeting

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Modification 12th meeting

• Postnominal Modifier

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The Noun Phrase Postnominal Modifiers

• In a noun phrase, modifier can be in the position
  after the noun phrase. Those modifiers are called
  postnominal modifiers.
• Ex The apartment, spotlessly clean
• The apartment, large and empty
• From the example above the word clean, large and
  empty are the postnominal modifiers

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Forms of Postnominal Modifiers

• 1.Modified Adjective
• Ex The mailman exuberantly happy, whistled
  merrily.
• 2. Compounded adjective
• Ex The mail carrier, weary and wet, trudged
  along in the train.
• 3. Non-suffixing word
• Ex The people upstairs
• 4. Adverb
• Ex My meaning exactly.
• 5. Noun phrase adjectival
• Ex The party last night

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• 6. Prepositional Phrase Adjectival
• Ex The bend in the river.
• 7. Participle or Participial Phrase, ing
  Adjectival
• Ex The woman weeping was escorted to the door.
• 8. Participle or participial phrase, -ed,
  Adjectival
• Ex They refused to pay the money demanded
• 9. Infinitive Phrase Adjectival , to____
• Ex I have a lesson to study.
• 10. Relative Clause Adjectival.
• Ex The trees that had mistletoe were half dead.
• 11. Appositive Adjectival
• Ex The bailey Bugle, a college newspaper,
  appears weekly