The Noun phrase – Frase Nominal
1. NOUN OR PRONOUN = SUSTANTIVO O PRONOMBRE
Ausencia de determinador o artículo en enunciados generales o nombres propios.
 Life is strange sometimes.
 Crime is a problem in big cities.
 Research is vital for human progress.
 Unemployment is a big social issue.
 Portugal is in Western Europe.
 Sociology is the scientific study of societies and human behavior in groups.
 Political science is the scientific study of politics and government.
2. DETERMINER + ADJECTIVE + NOUN = ARTÍCULO + ADJETIVO + SUSTANTIVO
a powerful force
the religious community
some important school
no explicit decision
the systemic organization
other useful approaches
a perceptive scientist
3. (DETERMINER) + ADJECTIVE + ADJECTIVE + (ADJECTIVE) + NOUN = (ARTÍCULO) + ADJETIVO +
ADJETIVO + (ADJETIVO) + SUSTANTIVO
a frequent global pollution problem
some dominant conservative social theorists
her strong clear sociological approach
an important contemporary American literary critic
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a broad Marxist cultural theory
some alternative European political movements
4. (DETERMINER) + NOUN + NOUN= (ARTÍCULO) + SUSTANTIVO + SUSTANTIVO
the population control
a communication scientist
our research report
a television producer
some language problems
the nation states
5. (DETERMINER) + NOUN´S + NOUN= (ARTÍCULO) + SUSTANTIVO + SUSTANTIVO
nature´s laws
the society´s members
Marx´s reforms
the scientist´s hypothesis
Italy´s economy
the government´s decision
people´s ideas
6. (DETERMINER) + NOUN + PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE = (ARTÍCULO) + SUSTANTIVO + FRASE
PREPOSICIONAL
the interest in social sciences
a generation of journalists
interaction between members
problems among countries
the development of bureaucracies
a prediction about behavior
the resources of the world
EJERCITACIÓN
 Traduzca
1. Multimedia is the combination of T.V., computers and telecommunications.
2. He was in prison last year.
3. The students are explaining the phenomenon of urban growth.
4. The committee is about to take measures against racial discrimination.
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5. Karl Marx was the great critic of capitalism in the second half or the nineteenth century.
6. The police is controling the situation.
7. This building is eighty years old.
8. Both countries are about to sing a peace treaty.
9. Human societies are structurally different from each other.
10.Capitalism is an important invention in the organization of human society.
11.The measurement of economic activity and economic growth is difficult.
 Señale el núcleo de la/s frase/s nominal/es que se encuentre/n en posición de sujeto o
en cualquier otro lugar dentro de la oración.
 Traduzca
1. Sociology is a social science.
2. A belief system is a set of related ideas.
3. Market adjustment is inevitable.
4. The social sciences are the scientific study of human behaviour.
5. The methodology of the natural scientific is different from the methodology of the
Social Sciences.
6. The methodological differences between Biology and Sociology are great.
7. Social science research is difficult.
8. The cultural patterns of societies are often different.
9. The structural aspects of a political system are within written documents.
10.The measurement of economic activity and economic growth is difficult.
11.The essential technical difference between these two countries is small.
 Descubra la diferencia. Traduzca.
 Indique el núcleo.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
social stratification
ethnic group
population growth
mass media
perceptive scientists
successful political scientists
stratification system
group work
world population
media reform
scientific perceptions
reliable western politicians
 Traduzca
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I.P.I.: International Press Institute
P.T.R.: Public Telecommunications Review
L.E.A.A.: Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
F.C.C.: federal Communications Commission
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5. A.N.P.A.: American Newspaper Publishers Association
6. UNICEF: United Nations children´s Fund
7. WHO: World Health Organization
8. U.N.E.S.C.O.: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
9. UNFPA: United Nations Population Fund
10. I.D.B.: Inter-American Development Bank
11.B.B.C.: British Broadcasting Corporation
12.S.A.L.T.: Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
13.F.A.O.: Food and Agriculture Organization
14.I.M.F.: International Monetary Fund
15.E.E.C.: European Economic Community
16.a differential divorce pattern
17.a brilliant contemporary American Marxist literary citric
18.a description of the crucial and concrete power relationships
19.the regional leadership of a mass party
20.an extraordinary consumption of the world´s irreplaceable natural resources
21.the functional integrated organization of all traits and complexes in a culture
22.an organized patterned system of social relationship
23.a relatively small number of variable abstract characteristics of belief systems
24.the social worker´s point of view toward societal phenomena
25.different biological, psychological, social and cultural elements
26.subtle forms of interaction between the researchers and the subjects
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