The girl I talked to yesterday is my best friend.
If there is a superlative comparison in a noun phrase as a pre modifier, we will normally begin the relative clause with ‘that” and in some cases we can omit it
She is the most beautiful girl (that) I have ever met
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non finite clauses
Non finite clauses may function as post modifiers and there are three kinds of them:
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Present participle clause. Eg: the dog sparking the thief
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Past participle clause. Eg: the girl shocked by the news
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Infinitive clause. Eg: a plan to catch a mouse:
In present participle and past participle, the head of the noun phrase is the implied subject.
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Adjective and adverbial clauses:
An adjective or adverbial clause may follow the head noun as a modifier for the head noun as illustrated below, respectively.
We don’t talk to the people upstairs
I saw her face full of tears
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Complementation. It helps to make clearer the head noun.
A more intelligent girl than I
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Head:
The head of a noun phrase may be a noun or pronoun. Without a noun, we usually cannot have a noun phrase.
A man
A strange person
What I have present above can be summarized in the below diagram.
Quantifiers (all, both, half)
Multipliers (double. twice)
Fractions (one-third, one-fifth)
Pre determiner
Article
Definite (the)
Indefinite (a, an)
Determiner
Possessive (his, her, my)
Dexis (that, those)
Demonstrative
Central determiner
Personal (my, her)
Spatial ( this, that)
Interrogative (which, what)
Noun
Phrase
Cardinal (one, two, three)
Number
Ordinal (first, second)
Post determiner
Quantifier (few, several, much)
Noun (science [as in science project])
Adjective Phrase (very big, extremely frail)
Pre modifier
Participle (nonfinite clause)
-ing Participle (winning)
Head
Complementation (then I, then that)
Post modifier
-ed Participle (tired)
Noun (Marie, information) children)
Pronoun (I, she, they)
Prepositional phrase (in the afternoon)
Relative Clause (Who was reading that book)
Nonfinite Clause
-Ing Clause (writing a letter)
-Ed Clause (shocked by the neus)
Infinitive Clause (to see)
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