Noun phrases
Sarah was miserable untill she met Steven, a salesman who visits a company that makes your dreams a reality in this fantasy story which takes place on another planet.
noun phrase, headed by salesman containing relative clause. So there is no distinction between single noun phrase and one that is made up of clauses and other components. We still call them all noun phrases ?
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Sarah was miserable untill she met Steven, a salesman who visits a company that makes your dreams a reality in this fantasy story which takes place on another planet . Yes, the whole underlined expression is a constituent consisting of a noun phrase with he noun "salesman" as head. There a couple of layers of embedding within the NP.
- Sarah was miserable untill she met Steven, a salesman who visits a company that makes your dreams a reality in this fantasy story which takes place on another planet .
- Yes, the whole underlined expression is a constituent consisting of a noun phrase with he noun "salesman" as head.
- There a couple of layers of embedding within the NP.
- They are dependents of the head of the NP ( salesman) or of the head of another NP located lower down in the constituent structure.
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Sarah was miserable untill she met Steven, a salesman who visits a company that makes your dreams a reality in this fantasy story which takes place on another planet.
Yes, the whole underlined expression is a constituent consisting of a noun phrase with he noun "salesman" as head.
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