Grammar Terminology
g. verbs such as
appear, begin, die, go, laugh, rain, happen
modification laiendama, laiend A term used to refer to the structural dependence of one those big boxes in the
grammatical unit on another in which the meaning of garage
the head phrase is affected by words that are used to premodific.
indicate qualities and attributes of the head. For postmodification
example, in the noun phrase those big boxes in the
garage, both big and in the garage modify boxes,
performing premodification and postmodification
respectively.