Overview of

Linguistic Grammar
E LT 3 11 - C H A P T E R 8

Presented by:
CODILLA, Jane Kiana
POSTRANO, Aileen Jean
 Identify the basic forms of sentence constituents
01
 Noun Phrase

 Verb Phrase

Locate the sentence constituents in a sentence

02
 Locating Noun Phrase in a sentence

 Identifying verb phrase in a sentence

Construct sentences that consists a noun and verb

phrases
03
BASIC UNITS
of the sentence

Sentence = Noun Phrase + Verb Phrase

This means to say that the very basic unit of a sentence are the Subject
(topic of the sentence) and Predicate (action of the subject).
 Noun Phrase
PHRASE
refers to a group of words that functions as a unit within
NOUN PHRASE the sentence
Simply noun and its modifier.

HEADWORD
Every phrase’s characteristic

NOUN
NOUN
Syntactically speaking, nouns are name
PHRASE of a person, place, thing or an event.
NP = Determiner + NOUN

The Girl SIGNALERS

The Determiner

OVERVIEW OF LINGUISTIC GRAMMAR

 PRE-HEAD

NP = Determiner + (adjective) + (noun) + NOUN +

(prepositional phrase) + (participial phrase) +
(relative clause)

POSTHEAD

Noun Phrase are grammatical without them

OVERVIEW OF LINGUISTIC GRAMMAR

E
X
A small race car with a red
strip zooming by that I saw.

A
M
The quick brown dog jumped
over the lazy cat.

P The strong independent

woman.

L The box in the attic is full of

E
memories.

OVERVIEW OF LINGUISTIC GRAMMAR

OVERVIEW OF LINGUISTIC GRAMMAR

The little old man. SUBJECT

DIRECT OBJECT

INDIRECT OBJECT
Absolutely Perfect day
SUBJECT or OBJECT COMPLIMENT

OBJECT OF THE PREPOSITION

The beautify damsel
APPOSITIVE

Fluffy white cat

NOMINALS
 CHARACTERISTICS
COMPONENT 1 COMPONENT 2
Movable Participles Movable Adjectives
(-ing, -ed, -en) Preheadword modifier
You can simply impress Can make stylistic
your audience and add a statement when it is
unique zing. compounded and placed
after the head word
The incumbent, having The unfamiliar neighborhood,
collected huge campaign dark and still, felt strangely
contributions, won by a ominous.
landslide.
COMPONENT 3
Appositives
Contents Here
Can be thought as a
combination of adjectival
and nominal.
The old house, an abandoned
Victorian with peeling paint,
adds to the ominous feeling of
the neighborhood.
COMPONENT 3
Absolute Phrases
Most sophisticated of stylistic devices
You can simply impress
your audience and add a
unique zing.
The snowstorm showing no
signs of abating, school was
cancelled for the third day in
a row.
OVERVIEW OF LINGUISTIC GRAMMAR
 V E R B
P H R A S E
INTRANSITIVE VERB

LINKING VERB
SENTENCE=
Noun Phrase + TRANSITIVE VERB
Verb Phrase
 He is eating an apple.

They celebrated the Buwan ng Wika last week.

Holy Cross of Davao college is owned by the

archdiocese of Davao.

EX AMPLE They are playing chess.

Have you been sitting on my chair?

Verb Phrase always includes a finite verb
EXAMPLE #1
The prisoner escaped again.

PRESENT TENSE

EXAMPLE #2
Sarah is crying again.

PAST TENSE

EXAMPLE #3
They write letters.
Non finite verbs
DEFINITION
Cannot be the main verb, they do not indicate tenses

GERUNDS (-ing) that function as a noun

Running is good for your heart.
He hates waking up early.

INFINITIVES (verbals; to+verb) (why the action is done?)

The students studied very hard to pass the exam
 Now it’s your turn!
Get paper and pen then construct your own sentences
and label NOUN and VERB PHRASE in the sentence!