All posts tagged "noun phrase"
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Lies Your Grammar Teacher Told You: Nouns and AdjectivesNotional grammars define adjectives as “words that describe nouns.” Big, cute, green, small, and wonky are prototypical adjectives. In big bully,...
English AdjectivesMarch 31, 2019 -
Lies Your Grammar Teacher Told You: Indirect ObjectsI recently tweeted my post entitled Using Nouns and Noun Phrases as Indirect Objects. To my tweet, I received a comment...
Grammatical FunctionMarch 29, 2019 -
The Appositive in English GrammarAppositives are words, phrases, and clauses that supports another word, phrase, or clause by describing or modifying the other word, phrase,...
Grammatical FunctionJune 14, 2018 -
The Postpositional Complement in English GrammarPostpositional complements are defined as the word, phrase, or clause that directly precedes the postposition and completes the meaning of the...
Grammatical FunctionJanuary 27, 2018 -
The Adpositional Complement in English GrammarAdpositional complements are defined as the word, phrase, or clause that directly follows the adposition and completes the meaning of the...
Grammatical FunctionFebruary 10, 2014 -
Using Verbs and Verb Phrases as Noun Phrase ModifiersTraditional grammars define verbs as “words that denote actions and states of being.” A verb phrase consists of a verb plus...
English VerbsSeptember 15, 2013 -
Using Noun Clauses as Noun Phrase ComplementsIn grammar, a clause is a grammatical structure that consists of a subject and a predicate. A dependent or subordinate clause...
English NounsSeptember 1, 2013 -
English PronounsNotional grammars define pronouns as “small words that take the place of nouns and other grammatical forms.” Pronoun is a subcategory...
English PronounsAugust 29, 2013 -
Using Pronouns as Object ComplementsTraditional grammars describe nouns as words that name people, places, things, and ideas. Pronouns are a subcategory of nouns that take...
English PronounsAugust 28, 2013 -
The Noun Phrase Head in English GrammarNoun phrase heads are words that function as the heads of noun phrases. A noun phrase consists of a noun or...
Grammatical FunctionAugust 14, 2013 -
The Predicate Nominative in English GrammarPredicate nominatives, or predicate nouns, are defined as nominal grammatical forms that perform the grammatical function of subject complement. Subject complements...
Grammatical FunctionJuly 18, 2013 -
The Determinative in English GrammarDeterminatives are words and phrases that express additional information such as definiteness, proximity, quantity, and relationships about a noun phrase or...
Grammatical FunctionJuly 9, 2013 -
Using Pronouns as AppositivesThe notional definition of a noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea. Pronouns are a subcategory...
English PronounsJune 28, 2013 -
Using Pronouns as Prepositional ComplementsTraditional grammars define nouns as words that refer to people, places, things, and ideas. A subcategory of nouns, pronouns are words...
English PronounsJune 27, 2013 -
Grammatical Forms of English Prepositional PhrasesA prepositional phrase is a phrase in which a preposition functions as the head of the phrase plus a prepositional complement....
English PrepositionsJune 25, 2013
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