Nominal Group - Modifiers

Determiner
MD
Ordinator
MO
Epithet
ME
Nominator
MN
1. Characteristics:
- precede numerals
and adjectives
- have a concord
relation with the head
-may be a member of
the following word
classes by form:
a) particles: the, a,
each, both
b) personal pronouns:
my, you, his, her
c)genitive nouns:
John`s, Mary`s
d) wh- words: what,
which, whose etc.
e) demonstratives:
that, this, those, these
2. List of the
determiners
according to their
usual concord
relations with the
head:
- singular: a/an, each,
every, either, neither,
another
- plural: both, few,
many, several, those,
these,
- mass: less, little,
much
- singpl: other,
which
- sing mass: this,
that
- pl mass: all, a lot
of, enough, half,
more, most, some,
such
- singpl mass: any,
John`s, my, us, only,
other, some, the,
what, whose
1. Characteristics
-follow determiners
when they occur with
them
-precede adjectives !not
comparative or
superlative forms)"
when they occur with
them
-enter into number
concord with items at #
and $
-when more than one
item occurs there is a
customary se%uence
2. &he completed
se%uence pattern:
'rdinator 1: first,
second, last, next
'rdinator 2: one, two,
three, hundred, few,
dozen, score
'rdinator (:
comparatives"
superlatives" less,
more, such, other,
whole, single, entire
)pithet 1-modifiable by
very: good, lovely, chic,
handsome, successful,
clean, interesting, pleasing
shoc!ed, gifted, blac!ened
)pithet 2- short words: old,
young, new
)pithet (- color adjectives
)pithet *- adjectives which
are not normally
submodifiable: "merican,
#nglish, local,
geographical, sil!en
-when a modifier is itself
modified" it is said to be a
submodifier
e.g.: a very pleasing result
so, much, more, most, less,
rather, nearly, even,
strongly, especially,
1. # + $
2. # + + $
(. # ) + $
*. # ) ) + $
'ther items which can
occur at noun:
a) particles: then, above,
very" e.g. the then !ing
b) $ing forms: e.g. a
sleeping dog
c) prepositional groups
e.g. an out%of%the%way
place
d) nominal group: e.g. the
next%door neighbour
e) clause items" e.g. a do%
it%yourself