English and Vietnamese noun phrases Running head: english and vietnamese noun phrase

2. 
   Ordinal – cardinal
   

3. 
   Indefinite quantifiers- cardinal number
   

2. 
   Pre modifier:
   

1. 
   Noun modifier
   

Eg: Love story, bamboo village

We frequently use a noun modifier when we want to talk about the quality, characteristics of the head noun as in “plastics table”

This construction is sometimes called noun- noun compound or noun –noun combination.

Where there is an adjective in an English noun phrase, it stands between the head noun and adjective.

Eg: Some interesting children books

2. 
   Adjective modifier is an optional element. Where the adjective is used in an English noun phrase, it appears after determiners and its function is “to amplify or describe the head noun, to highlight some quantities of the noun”(L. H. Nguyen, 2004)
   

We can use more than one adjective to modify the head noun and these adjectives must follow the certain order

3. 
   Participle phrase:
   

3. 
   Post modifier:
   

1. 
   Prepositional phrase:
   

When will I meet the girl of my dream?

2. 
   Relative clause:
   

In relative clause, relative pronouns which refer back to the head noun of the noun phrase, occur as post modifiers

Some children books that I have ever read

The relative pronoun may be the subject or object of the relative clause. In case they are objects of the relative clauses, we may sometimes omit the relative pronouns.