GoldfishLord
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Consider the following example of a noun phrase in which a prepositional phrase is used to post-modify the head noun.
The noun phrase is the coat of many colors and the head noun is coat. This head noun is pre-modified by the identifier the. In addition, it is post-modified by the prepositional phrase of many colors. It is a simple matter to determine if this complex structure is functioning as a complete noun phrase, as it is always possible to substitute a pronoun for a whole noun phrase. So, in the utterance the coat of many colors was beautiful a pronoun may be substituted for the noun phrase to produce the modified utterance it was beautiful. Here is a further example of a prepositional phrase being used to post-modify a noun phrase.
(Reference: https://www.sltinfo.com/prepositional-phrases/ )
There is a lack of context.
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I'd like to know if, according to the passage, the orange part has the same grammatical construction as the blue part, and may be substituted with the pronoun it.
The noun phrase is the coat of many colors and the head noun is coat. This head noun is pre-modified by the identifier the. In addition, it is post-modified by the prepositional phrase of many colors. It is a simple matter to determine if this complex structure is functioning as a complete noun phrase, as it is always possible to substitute a pronoun for a whole noun phrase. So, in the utterance the coat of many colors was beautiful a pronoun may be substituted for the noun phrase to produce the modified utterance it was beautiful. Here is a further example of a prepositional phrase being used to post-modify a noun phrase.
(Reference: https://www.sltinfo.com/prepositional-phrases/ )
There is a lack of context.
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I'd like to know if, according to the passage, the orange part has the same grammatical construction as the blue part, and may be substituted with the pronoun it.
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