The Structure of Noun Phrase in English and Vietnamese
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Contrastive Analysis
- Điều hướng trang này:
- Non-finite clause
| Post-modification
After the head noun, there appears post-modification. Post-modifications can be a word such as an adjective, an adverb or a phrase such as prepositional phrase or a clause such as relative clause, non-finite clause. Usually, when people need an adjective to modify the head noun, they place it in the pre-modification position. However, in some cases, an adjective can go after the head noun, especially in some few set phrases like blood royal, heir apparent. In addition, in comparison with adjectives, adverbs are more frequently found in the position of post-modification and they can be regarded as reductions of a prepositional phrase. For example, the time before can be understood as the time before this one. A relative clause is a clause composed of a relative pronoun as a head which refers back to the head noun of the noun phrase. The relative pronoun “who” and “whom” refer to people. The relative pronoun “which” is used for plants and animals. If the relative pronoun is an index of an object, it can be omitted. For example: in the noun phrase the girl whom I met yesterday, “whom” is optional. A Non-finite clause can also function as post-modification. There are three kinds of non-finite clauses according to the verb that introduces them: Infinitive Clause (a), Present Participle Clause (b) and Past Participle Clause (c). For example: a movie to see the man talking to the teacher the movie chosen by the teacher An infinitive clause is introduced by a to-infinitive. Likewise, a present participle and a past participle clause are introduced by a present participle and a past participle respectively. Non-finite clauses can be reconstructed into full relative clauses. For example: (a) movie to see a movie that we should see (b) the man talking to the teacher the man who is talking to the teacher (c) the movie chosen by the teacher the movie that is chosen by the teacher A prepositional phrase is form by a preposition + a noun phrase, e.g. in the corner. Prepositional phrases are said to be the most frequent kind of post-modifiers in noun phrases. For example: the man in the corner. A prepositional phrase can also be rebuilt into a relative clause, e.g. the man who is in the corner. In conclusion, we can have a brief summary of English noun phrase: Table 1: The structure of Noun Phrase in English
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