Course: Grammar & Syntax

Course code: ENG-332

Programme: BS (SEM. 6)
Instructor: Dr. Shazia Dar
Lecture 13: Analysis of NPs, Adjp and Advp
Revision of NP rules
Rule 1
Rule 2
Rule 3
Rule 4
Rule 5
NPs
• the happy puppy
• the building on the corner
• The bohemian house
• An intelligent lawyer with a crooked nose
• the sharp pencil in the penholder under the table
• the little boy with a bat in the playground
Adj phrase
Principle of Modification (revised):
• Principle of Modification (revised): If an XP (that is, a phrase with
some category X) modifies some head Y, then XP must be a sister to Y
(i.e., a daughter of YP).
Sentences
• His brand-new, unreleased album
• The very selective school
• the bright, short-range cell phone flashlight
• Very carefully
• Quite easily
• Very small boy
• Really short poem
• very much too quickly
• the soggy limp spaghetti noodle
Thank you