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Sentences with HEAD-WORD

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"In linguistics, a head word is the word that determines the syntactic category of a phrase."
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"The head word in the phrase 'the big blue house' is 'house'."
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"The head word of the noun phrase 'a black cat' is 'cat'."
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"In a verb phrase, the head word is always a verb."
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"The head word of the subject noun phrase is usually a noun."
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"In this sentence, 'run' is the head word of the verb phrase 'will run'."
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"The head word of the prepositional phrase 'in the park' is 'park'."
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"In English, the head word usually comes before its dependents."
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"The head word of the adjective phrase 'very beautiful' is 'beautiful'."
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"In a sentence, the head word typically carries the most meaning."
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"The head word of a compound noun is generally the final noun."
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"The head word of the determiner phrase 'my new car' is 'car'."
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"Often, the head word of a phrase is the word that agrees with the verb."
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"In the phrase 'quickly running away', 'running' is the head word."
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"The head word of the adverb phrase 'very quickly' is 'quickly'."
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"In the sentence 'She is running in the park', 'running' is the head word."
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"The head word of the noun phrase 'the big red ball' is 'ball'."
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"In a sentence, the head word may be modified by other words in its phrase."
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"A noun phrase consists of a head word and any modifiers or determiners."
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"The head word can also be called the lexical head or simply the head."
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"The head word in the sentence "I ate an apple." is 'ate'."
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"In the phrase 'big blue sky', 'sky' is the head word."
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"The head word in the sentence 'She is reading a book' is 'reading'."
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"In the phrase 'the yellow bird', 'bird' is the head word."
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"The head word of the sentence 'The cat is sleeping' is 'sleeping'."
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"In the phrase 'delicious chocolate cake', 'cake' is the head word."
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"The head word in the sentence 'He will go to the beach tomorrow' is 'go'."
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"In the phrase 'the tall building', 'building' is the head word."
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"The head word in the sentence 'They were running in the park' is 'running'."
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"In the phrase 'beautiful red roses', 'roses' is the head word."
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