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    The document describes the structure of different phrases in English including noun phrases, adjective phrases, adverb phrases, and prepositional phrases. It outlines the possible premodifiers, heads, and postmodifiers that make up each type of phrase. For example, it notes that a noun phrase can contain determiners, premodifiers, the head noun, and various types of postmodifiers.

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    The document describes the structure of different phrases in English including noun phrases, adjective phrases, adverb phrases, and prepositional phrases. It outlines the possible premodifiers, heads, and postmodifiers that make up each type of phrase. For example, it notes that a noun phrase can contain determiners, premodifiers, the head noun, and various types of postmodifiers.

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    The Noun Phrase

    Determiners Premodifiers HEAD Postmodifiers


    Pre Central Post
    deter. deter. deter. adj prep.phrase
    NOUN
    all articles ordinals nouns non finite cl
    both demonstr quantifiers participles relative cl
    half possessives (a)little adv appositives
    multipliers wh-determ. (a)few adverbs
    no every/each postposed adj
    either/neither own
    some/any
    enough

    The Adjective Phrase

    Premodifier HEAD Postmodifier Complement


    Adv: enough Prep..phrase
    adv ADJECTIVE indeed Finite cl
    Non finite cl

    The Adverb Phrase

    Premodifier HEAD Postmodifier


    Adv: enough
    adv ADVERB indeed

    The Prepositional Phrase


    Premodifier

    adv

    PREPOSITION Complement
    Noun
    adv
    Finite cl
    Non finite ing cl

    The Verb Phrase

    AUXILIARY LEXICAL,MAIN
    VERB

    Primary Modal
    (do-have-be) (can,will,etc)

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