1. Nouns Post-Modifiers
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2. Noun Post-Modifiers Post –modifiers are modifiers coming after a noun.
The most common post-modifier is the prepositional phrase:
the book on the table
   
civil conflict in Africa

3. Noun Post-Modifiers Post-modifiers can be short: a dream deferred
   
or long:
A girl who is wearing a pink scarf
around her neck

4. Noun Post-Modifiers
Post-modifiers commonly answer the traditional news reporting questions of who , what , where , when , how , or why .

5. Noun Post-Modifiers
Noun post-modifiers commonly take the following forms:
prepositional phrase the dog in the store
 _ing phrase the girl running to the store
 _ed past tense         the man wanted by the police
  wh - clauses the house where I was born
          
that/which clauses the thought that I had yesterday
            

6. Noun Post-Modifiers
The noun together with all pre- and post-modifiers constitutes a single unit, a noun phrase that indicates the complete reference. Any agreement in terms of singular/plural is with the noun at the center.