| 41. | Recent projects include research on the English Noun Phrase, Subordination in Spoken and Written English, and the English Verb Phrase.
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| 42. | The new verb phrase galloped on unimpeded, though, till a pair of zealous 20th-century language mavens decided to rein it in.
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| 43. | But there is " no " situation where " had of been " used as a verb phrase is ever correct.
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| 44. | A command always consists of a noun phrase ( the addressee ), followed by a comma, followed by an uncoordinated verb phrase.
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| 45. | The noun phrase ( NP ) that is the subject of the sentence is located in the specifier of the verb phrase.
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| 46. | But " cast away, " an active verb phrase conveying a hopeless man's sense that life, with dispassionate cruelty, has tossed him aside.
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| 47. | If a noun phrase occurs outside of the verb phrase then it is typically represented in the verb phrase by an appropriate pronoun.
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| 48. | Moreover, the noun determines prefixes of all words that modify it and subject determines prefixes of other elements in the same verb phrase.
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| 49. | I would add that the original verb phrase carried a second sense, " understood, " as in the exchange : " Capish ?"
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| 50. | If a noun phrase occurs outside of the verb phrase then it is typically represented in the verb phrase by an appropriate pronoun.
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