ABSTRACT

Having looked at the NP, let us now turn to the sentence and see nominal phrases in their various positions within it.

First, some definitions: A verbal sentence (non-verbal sentences will be discussed under

Section 4.4.2.) contains in traditional terms a subject and a predicate,

‘Ali died yesterday’

Another way of looking at the same thing is to describe it in terms of nominal phrase and verb phrase,

‘Ali and Audu returned yesterday’

The term verbal phrase subsumes the verb and all its dependents-objects, complements and adjuncts.