1. Holes
Nominal Groups

2. What are they? Why are they used?
NOMINAL Groups
What are they? Why are they used?

3. Stanley climbed God’s Thumb.
NOMINAL Groups
Stanley climbed God’s Thumb.

4. noun A nominal group is centered around a noun Stanley
WHAT IS A NOMINAL GROUP?
A nominal group is centered around a noun
There might be words that do something to the noun before it
noun
Stanley
There might be words that do something to the noun after it
Everything in the rectangle belongs to the nominal group

5. noun Stanley Describe what Stanley was like Describe who Stanley was
WHAT IS A NOMINAL GROUP?
Describe what Stanley was like
noun
Stanley
Describe who Stanley was

6. Describe what Stanley was like
WHAT IS A NOMINAL GROUP?
Describe what Stanley was like
noun
Stanley

7. NOMINAL GROUPS
What if we wanted to add almost all that information in a more confined space?
Stanley climbed God’s Thumb. Stanley was courageous. Stanley was determined.
This information is added by expanding a nominal group, not by adding clauses.

8. Stanley, Courageous and determined, NOMINAL GROUPS
These words answer: What was Stanley like?
These words answer:
Who is Stanley?

9. Stanley Courageous and determined, NOMINAL GROUPS
These words answer: What was Stanley like?
These words answer:
Who was Stanley?

10. NOMINAL GROUPS
Stanley climbed God’s Thumb. Courageous and determined, Stanley climbed God’s Thumb.

11. YOUR TURN! Zero ran away from the Camp.
NOMINAL GROUPS
YOUR TURN! Zero ran away from the Camp.

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