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Tue 3 Jan, 2012 12:00 pm
-This very famous Cambridge University teacher of Cognitive Psychology has recently published an extremely important article that deals with the acquisition of linguistic knowledge by normal children.
@Mame,
:s this is not a homework. i find these lessons so hard, and i want have the answer of this one in order to help to understand.
If you can help me please do it.
@Mame,
Well if You have something in mind help him Its okey I'm a frensh teacher if I could I would
@bdrossing,
First, do you know what 'nouns' are? If so, find them; post them here; we will help you idetify the 'noun phrases.'
@Lustig Andrei,
is this correct
Noun phrase : Cambridge University teacher
i guess "of Cognitive Psychology" is a prepositional phrase
isn't it?
Here is the main subject/verb for that sentence:
(n) teacher / (verb) has published / (n) article
Now you can find all the phrases that modify (describe) all the main nouns
@PUNKEY,
so there are two noun phrases ?
In your sentence, these are all nouns:
teacher
article
acquisition
knowledge
children
Now decide which nouns have modifiers (adjectives) that further qualify those nouns and turn the whole collection of words into a noun phrase. (You've got more than two.) Btw, what did you learn in that course anyway?
@bdrossing,
Yes, "of cognitive psychology" is a prepositional phrase. But it also modifies the noun "teacher" so it's possible to consider it as a part of a noun phrase.