Grammar Reference

Noun phrases

Postmodification

We can make a sentence more complex by putting more information into it. Here are four simple sentences:

All this information can be contained in one sentence. For example:

This painting represents

ancestral

women

of this particular tribe

sitting in the shade of a tree.

 

Adjective

Noun

Preposition phrase

Participle clause


We cannot change the order of these elements.

To show another example, look at these sentences:

All this information can be packed into the following sentence:

Inspired by his hard-working mother while growing up in a tiny thatch-roofed hut and surrounded by poverty, Sarathbabu now dreams of creating employment and enabling over 100,000 people in India to fend for themselves.