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Rena91 Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
postmodification and premodification ?
What is the differences between postmodification and premodification ?
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pre just means before and post after.
- pre just means before and post after.
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Premodificaton and postmodification (some authors hyphenate these terms: pre-modification and post-modification)
In academic writing, most nouns are preceded or followed by one or more words or phrases known as modifiers. In many cases, nouns have both pre-modifiers (occurring before the noun) and post-modifiers (occurring after the noun).
In the sentence below, the nouns 'decl
In academic writing, most nouns are preceded or followed by one or more words or phrases known as modifiers. In many cases, nouns have both pre-modifiers (occurring before the noun) and post-modifiers (occurring after the noun).
In the sentence below, the nouns 'decl
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Anonymous And in this case: A sense of anticipation rushed over him?'A sense of anticipation' is the subject of the sentence and a noun phrase, being 'sense' the head, 'of anticipation' a prepositional phrase and post- modifier. '...rushed over him' is the predicate. ...'rushed': verb. 'over him' adverbial adjunct of place/position - prepo
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