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    The document discusses several types of noun modifiers that provide specific information about other nouns, including: 1) A noun can modify another noun that follows it, usually in singular form, such as "chicken soup" and "tomato soup". 2) Prepositional phrases begin with a preposition like "to", "of", or "with" and modify verbs or nouns. 3) Adjective phrases describe nouns and can be placed before or after the noun. 4) Relative pronouns like "who", "whom", "that" introduce dependent clauses and connect them to independent clauses.

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    The document discusses several types of noun modifiers that provide specific information about other nouns, including: 1) A noun can modify another noun that follows it, usually in singular form, such as "chicken soup" and "tomato soup". 2) Prepositional phrases begin with a preposition like "to", "of", or "with" and modify verbs or nouns. 3) Adjective phrases describe nouns and can be placed before or after the noun. 4) Relative pronouns like "who", "whom", "that" introduce dependent clauses and connect them to independent clauses.

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    The document discusses several types of noun modifiers that provide specific information about other nouns, including: 1) A noun can modify another noun that follows it, usually in singular form, such as "chicken soup" and "tomato soup". 2) Prepositional phrases begin with a preposition like "to", "of", or "with" and modify verbs or nouns. 3) Adjective phrases describe nouns and can be placed before or after the noun. 4) Relative pronouns like "who", "whom", "that" introduce dependent clauses and connect them to independent clauses.

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    The document discusses several types of noun modifiers that provide specific information about other nouns, including: 1) A noun can modify another noun that follows it, usually in singular form, such as "chicken soup" and "tomato soup". 2) Prepositional phrases begin with a preposition like "to", "of", or "with" and modify verbs or nouns. 3) Adjective phrases describe nouns and can be placed before or after the noun. 4) Relative pronouns like "who", "whom", "that" introduce dependent clauses and connect them to independent clauses.

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    NOUN MODIFIERS

    a. Noun modifiers
    A noun can modify another noun that follows it. As a modifier, the first noun gives
    specific information about the following noun. In nearly all cases, the noun that acts
    as the modifier is in singular form. The modifying noun is placed attributively; that
    is, before the noun it describes to add meaning to it (the noun being modified).

    Ex : They do not have vegetable soup, but they do have chicken soup and tomato
    soup.

    ( In the sentence, the nouns vegetable, chicken and tomato are modifiers. They


    modify soup. Without the modifiers, we would not know what soup they have or do
    not have, and all we would know is they have soup. )

    b. Prepositional phrase
    Is a group of words consisting of a preposition, its object, and any words that modify
    the object. Most of the time, a prepositional phrase modifies a verb or a noun. These
    two kinds of prepositional phrases are called adverbial phrases and adjectival phrases,
    respectively.

    Ex : Is she really going out with that tall, gorgeous guy?

    ( Some of the most common prepositions that begin prepositional phrases are to, of,
    about, at, before, after, by, behind, during, for, from, in, over, under, and with. )

    c. Adjective phrase
    Is a group of words that describe a noun or pronoun in a sentence. The adjective in an
    adjective phrase can appear at the start, end, or in the middle of the phrase. The
    adjective phrase can be placed before, or after, the noun or pronoun in the sentence.
    Ex : - The movie was not too terrible.

    - Everyone was extremely delighted when the winner was announced.


    d. Relative pronoun
    Is a word that introduces a dependent (or relative) clause and connects it to an
    independent clause. A clause beginning with a relative pronoun is poised to answer
    questions such as Which one? How many? or What kind? Who, whom, what, which,
    and that are all relative pronouns.

    Ex : - The woman who came to the door left flowers for you.

    - I am not sure whom this book belongs to.

    e. Adjective clause
    Is a type of dependent clause that works to describe a noun in a sentence. It functions
    as an adjective even though it is made up of a group of words instead of just one
    word. In the case of an adjective clause, all the words work together to modify
    the noun or pronoun.

    Ex : - The dog that I brought home from the pound  was soon fast asleep.

    - Charlie has a friend whose daughter lives in China.

    f. Finite and non-finite

    - Finite verb forms show tense, person and number (I go, she goes, we went,
    etc.) :
     She was waiting in the room before he came in.
     Does your brother know my brother?
     The night before he had to leave, they sat on the small sofa in the living-
    room and looked at old family photos.

    - Non-finite verb forms do not show tense, person or number. Typically they
    are infinitive forms with and without to (e.g. to go, go), -ing forms and
    -ed forms (e.g. going, gone) :
     She tiptoed round the house so as not to wake anyone.
     You need to paint the whole cupboard, starting from the bottom.

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