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Nominal group

Features	Example items	Where to put a tag
Shell nouns	the author's belief that/of …	Det + premodifiers + Noun + that/of
No + Noun construction	No rules, None of the idea	No + head noun

Shell nouns/ Nominalized construction

Shell nouns are abstract nouns that are frequently used to express mental or communicative processes in a compressed fashion.

For example;

• Chomsky believes that language is for individuals rather than group.

Can be paraphrased using shell noun belief as follows:

• Chomsky’s belief that language is for individuals rather than groups .

Sometimes primary and more typically secondary engagement value is expressed using a nominalized construction. As per the pattern for verbal group, we do NOT include the clause-controlling that in the span (although discriptively and psycholinguistically they may behave as one unit).

• Chomsky’s belief that language is for individuals rather than groups .
• First of all, we see no problem with their proposal that John take over the running of the EEC Intensive Foundation Summer School at Bentham House, especially if this arrangement is more beneficial to the Laws Faculty.
• They deny the possibility of a death wish lurking amidst the gardens of lust.
• My impression that I had been hurled into a coarsu world was heightened at the beginning of each day.

No + noun construction

• No claims can be made for more than inferential findings.
• Without variability, no learning can take place.