Examples
Examine the following sentence:
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- The house at the end of the street is not red.
The words in bold form a phrase; together they act like a noun. This phrase can be further broken down; a prepositional phrase functioning as an adjective can be identified:
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- at the end of the street
Further, a smaller prepositional phrase can be identified inside this greater prepositional phrase:
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- of the street
And within the greater prepositional phrase, one can identify a noun phrase:
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- the end of the street
Phrases can be identified by constituency tests such as proform substitution (=replacement). For instance, the prepositional phrase at the end of the street could be replaced by an adjective such as nearby: the nearby house or even the house nearby. The end of the street could also be replaced by another noun phrase, such as the crossroads to produce the house at the crossroads.
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