▲qualifiers

1.10 The use of qualifiers allows us great freedom in expanding the noun group. Qualifiers can be prepositional phrases, relative clauses, adverts of place or time, or ‘to’-infinitives.

… a girl in a dark grey dress.

...the man who employed me.

The room upstairs.

...the desire to kill.

Adjectives and participles are also sometimes used as qualifiers, usually in combination with other words.

...the Minister responsible for national security.

...the three cards lying on the table.

See paragraphs 2.289 to 2.320 for more information about qualifiers.

1.11 In particular, prepositional phrases beginning with ‘of’ are very common, because they can express many different kinds of relationship between the two noun groups.

...strong feelings of jealousy.

...a picture of a house.

...the destruction of their city.

...the daughter of the village cobbler.

...problems of varying complexity.

...the arrival of the police.

For more information about the use of ‘of’ in the noun group see paragraphs 2.294 to 2.300.

▲coordination

1.12 If you want to refer separately to more than one person or thing, of you want to describe them in more than one way. You can link noun groups, modifiers, or qualifiers using the conjunctions ‘and’, ‘or’, or ‘but’. Sometimes you can use a comma instead of ‘and’, or just put one word next to another.

...a table and chair.

...his obligations with regard to Amanda, Robert and Matthew.

...some fruit or cheese afterwards.

...her long black skirt.

See paragraphs 8.159 to 8 189 for more information about the use of conjunctions to link noun groups and words within noun groups.

▲numbers and quantifiers

1.13 If you want to say how many things you are talking about, or how much of something there is, you use numbers and quantifiers.

Last year I worked seven days a week fourteen hours a day.

She drinks lots of coffee.

Numbers are dealt with in paragraphs 2.225 to 2.256, and quantifiers are dealt with in 2.193 to 2.210.

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