SUMMARY OF THE STRUCTURE OF NP

Ex: all these first few expensive student’s walking sport shoes

RESTRIC PRE- DET PRE-MOD

DET
just all ART DEM POSS Q In/Ex QA NUM POSS AP V-part V-Ger ModN
only both DET CommN
even half
a this my any what many Ordinal girl’s good Active Ving University
merely
an that your… another which much (first,…) students’ very easy (Ving) Washing
especially
the these John’s each whose few Cardinal Flying
particularly
those enough little (one,
either two…) Passive
neither … (Ved/3)
no dried
some
+
HEAD NOUN (Noun/ pronoun) 1. The trees in the garden are exuberant.  prepositional phrase
+ 2. Teachers responsible for the freshmen should be on time.  Adj phrase
3. The man walking down the hill looked tired. ( Participial Phrase (Ving/ Ved-
POST-MOD 3)
PP AP PartP InfP SubACl NP 4. You should have a goal to achieve.  Infinitive Phrase
5. She is the girl who I’m looking for.  Subordinate Adj Clause
6. The course last summer was very helpful for us.  Noun Phrase

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TREE-DIAGRAMS OF NPs
1. RESTRICTERS 2. PRE-DETERMINERS
NP1
NP1
RESTRIC NP2
PRE-DET NP2

3. DETERMINERS
NP

DET N’

(ART/DEM/POSS/
Q/Interr/Exclam)
4. PRE-MODIFIERS
- QA/ NUM/ AP/ V-part - POSSCommN - ModN

N1’ N1’ N’

AP N2’ POSS CommN/NP N2’ ComN

QA/ NUM/ AP/ V-part N/NP POSS marker ModN headN

5. POST MODIFIERS
Or NP
NP1
N’ POST-MOD(modifier)
NP2 AP N (complement)
PP/AP/PartP/InfP/SubACl

THE WHOLE :

NP1

RESTRIC NP2

PRE-DET NP3

DET (a)N1’ (b)N1’

PRE-MOD N2’ N2’ POST-MOD

N’ POST-MOD PRE-MOD N’

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