Grammar in EAP

Exercises

Nouns: Identifying Postmodifiers

noun + postmodifier

relative clause – students who have no previous experience

to-clauses – the ability to succeed; the question to be debated

a brake consisting of a drum divided into twelve compartments

ed-clauses – canoes preserved by a hard plaster; a brake consisting of a drum divided into twelve compartments; the curve shown

prepositional phrase (preposition + nominal group)- we need to bring to the box a special tool with a ready-compressed spring

adverb (or adverbial group) – the road back; the people outside

adjective (or adjectival group) – varieties common in India, the festival proper, something different

Identify the Postmodifiers in the following texts

Example:

Embryology proper really began a century later with Aristotle … (adverb)

… an extreme example of this kind of distortion
… for flights going on as part of the fifth freedom.
… in a ward with less emphasis on the differences between night and day
Another major problem that we must consider is …
… the President’s speech yesterday.
… the solution to the problem of inflation.
… of actions required by authority …
… continually facing a problem which is very familiar to anthropologists …:
… figure including a space between three lines …
… its rooms and gardens full of refuse

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