Lesson 2 of 4 ยท Grade 10 English

Noun phrases and clause analysis

18 min

Noun phrases

A noun phrase has a head noun plus words that describe it.

  • the tall green tree in our compound
  • Pre-modifiers come before the noun: determiners (the, those), adjectives (tall, green).
  • Post-modifiers come after: prepositional phrases (in our compound) or relative clauses (that we planted).

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