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ZBH Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Noun Groups

I need help sorting out Nouns Groups into determiners, numeratives, describer, classifier, head, and postmodifier. The text is about 500 words. Emotion: sad
It's really confusing me! Emotion: sad
  

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ZBH It's really confusing me! No wonder you are confused! Nouns are not determiners.

  • ZBH It's really confusing me!
  • No wonder you are confused!
  • Nouns are not determiners.
  • Nouns are persons, places or things.
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ZBHIt's really confusing me!
No wonder you are confused!
Nouns are not determiners.
Nouns are persons, places or things.
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lol I know that. But I need to organize noun GROUPS.
So A man...the A is the determiner in the noun group.
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ZBH know that. But I need to organize noun GROUPS.
You need to work with noun phrases. Noun groups would be groups of nouns.

What is your question for us?
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ZBH But I need to organize noun GROUPS.
You mean this: I need to parse and analyze "noun phrases."
In grammar, a noun phrase is abbreviated "NP."
An NP consists of a head noun (the main noun in the phrase) and its modifiers.
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Thanks.
My mistake, we call them noun groups in UK
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I'm wondering if I tabled this correctly?

||A world without electricity

A World Without electricity would be a world without computers, phones, lights, TV, radio, and many others.|| And it would be very dark in the streets at night|| as there would be no street lamps|| and many accidents would occur|| from cars having no lights at night|| (if we found an alternativ
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AlpheccaStarsAn NP consists of a head noun (the main noun in the phrase) and its modifiers.
... and at least one determiner (possibly the zero-determiner).

As I understand it, determiners are not modifiers, but then ...

CJ

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