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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
I want to ask about pre & post modifiers in senetence analzying? Someone please help me out! Thanks in advance:-)
E.g The new white modern car, that i bought last week. Is expensive. (Analyze this for me, thanks!)
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Pre- and post modifiers tell the position of the modifier with respect to the noun being modified. Most of the time, adjectives are placed before the noun: A red rubber ball. The dirty pink shirt There are some adjectives that are post-modifiers: above, below, ago (words of placement beginning with a- and be-) Read the sentence above.
- Pre- and post modifiers tell the position of the modifier with respect to the noun being modified.
- Most of the time, adjectives are placed before the noun: A red rubber ball.
- The dirty pink shirt There are some adjectives that are post-modifiers: above, below, ago (words of placement beginning with a- and be-) Read the sentence above.
- See the examples below Two years ago Prepositional phrases and relative clauses are post-modifiers The girl with the long black hair The baby crying in his cradle The man who wanted to be king ...
- A meal cooked by my mother Now that you see the pattern, you can analyze your sentence.
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Pre- and post modifiers tell the position of the modifier with respect to the noun being modified.
Most of the time, adjectives are placed before the noun:
A red rubber ball.
The dirty pink shirt
There are some adjectives that are post-modifiers: above, below, ago (words of placement beginning with a- and be-)
Read the sentence
Most of the time, adjectives are placed before the noun:
A red rubber ball.
The dirty pink shirt
There are some adjectives that are post-modifiers: above, below, ago (words of placement beginning with a- and be-)
Read the sentence
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