NOUN PHRASES

A. Analyze the following examples:

1. A diesel passenger train.

2. A solid gold watch.
3. A vegetable pressure cooker.
4. Certain rich retired American wine producers.
5. Her absolutely wonderful performance.
6. I like Egyptian cotton shirts.
7. Some income tax office furniture.
8. A few major political parties.
9. My favourite small curved Chinese idols.
10. The bus station managers office.
11. The former American presidents family.
12. The intelligent womans guide to socialism and capitalism.
13. The leading leather furniture specialists.
14. The new size cardboard detergent carton.
15. Your local family food store.

** NOTE: If you find any (sensible!) syntactic ambiguities, you will need
different analyses to show each possible reading.**

B. Analyze the following examples. In those cases in which there is a subordinate

clause depending on a noun, decide only its function as a complement,
modifier or a peripheral dependent:

1. An old man in blue jeans.

2. All surgical appliances manufacturers.
3. This television aerial repair service.
4. The new colour magazine about photography that I bought.
5. Russias weapons of a nuclear type having an intermediate range.
6. Their indiscriminate shooting of tigers.
7. The allocation of finance committee.
8. Her best friend, Anna.
9. The men responsible for the Prime Ministers safety.
10. Her explanation that she couldnt see the car.
11. That strange idea that nobody should go to the seaside.
12. The explanation that she gave us.
13. Our admittance to the match next June.