Nouns
Post-Modifiers
Profª. Flávia Cunha
Noun Post-Modifiers
 Post –modifiers are modifiers coming
after a noun.
 The most common post-modifier is the
prepositional phrase:
 the book on the table
 civil conflict in Africa
Noun Post-Modifiers
 Post-modifiers can be short:
a dream deferred
 or long:
A girl who is wearing a pink scarf
around her neck
Noun Post-Modifiers
 Post-modifiers commonly answer the
traditional news reporting questions of
who , what , where , when , how ,
or why .
Noun Post-Modifiers
 Noun post-modifiers commonly take the following
forms:
prepositional phrase
_ing phrase
the dog in the store
the girl running to the store
_ed past tense
the man wanted by the police
wh - clauses
the house where I was born
that/which clauses
the thought that I had yesterday
Noun Post-Modifiers
The noun together with all preand post-modifiers constitutes
a single unit, a noun phrase
that indicates the complete
reference. Any agreement in
terms of singular/plural is with
the noun at the center.