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Difficulty: MediumNouns and Noun Phrases

In the sentence, 'The heavy rainstorm severely damaged the newly renovated roof of the community center yesterday afternoon,' which word functions as the head noun of the bolded noun phrase?

  1. A
    rainstorm
  2. roofAnswer
  3. C
    center
  4. D
    community

Answer

The word 'roof' is the correct head noun of the specified noun phrase.
The noun 'roof' serves as the head noun (headword) of the noun phrase. The words preceding it ('the newly renovated') function as pre-modifiers, while the prepositional phrase following it ('of the community center') acts as a post-modifier identifying which roof was damaged.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the structure of the bolded noun phrase: 'the newly renovated roof of the community center'.
Identify pre-modifiers ('the newly renovated') and post-modifiers ('of the community center').
Determining the modifier boundaries isolates the central noun being described.
2
Identify the primary element that carries the core syntactic meaning of the noun phrase.
The core noun is 'roof', as the entire phrase refers to a specific roof.
The head noun dictates the fundamental meaning and syntactic status of the phrase within the main clause.

Key Concept

Identifying the head noun in complex noun phrases
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Nouns and Noun Phrases

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