GoldfishLord
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Consider the following example of a noun phrase in which a prepositional phrase is used to post-modify the head noun.
![prepositional-phrase-of-many-colors.png prepositional-phrase-of-many-colors.png](https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/data/attachments/3/3542-3ffb5ddeb09639336b5fee5d0e3465a3.jpg)
The noun phrase is the coat of many colors and the head noun is coat. This head noun is pre-modified by the identifier the. In addition, it is post-modified by the prepositional phrase of many colors. It is a simple matter to determine if this complex structure is functioning as a complete noun phrase, as it is always possible to substitute a pronoun for a whole noun phrase. So, in the utterance the coat of many colors was beautiful a pronoun may be substituted for the noun phrase to produce the modified utterance it was beautiful. Here is a further example of a prepositional phrase being used to post-modify a noun phrase.
(Reference: https://www.sltinfo.com/prepositional-phrases/ )
There is a lack of context.
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I'd like to know if, according to the passage, the orange part has the same grammatical construction as the blue part, and may be substituted with the pronoun it.
![prepositional-phrase-of-many-colors.png prepositional-phrase-of-many-colors.png](https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/data/attachments/3/3542-3ffb5ddeb09639336b5fee5d0e3465a3.jpg)
The noun phrase is the coat of many colors and the head noun is coat. This head noun is pre-modified by the identifier the. In addition, it is post-modified by the prepositional phrase of many colors. It is a simple matter to determine if this complex structure is functioning as a complete noun phrase, as it is always possible to substitute a pronoun for a whole noun phrase. So, in the utterance the coat of many colors was beautiful a pronoun may be substituted for the noun phrase to produce the modified utterance it was beautiful. Here is a further example of a prepositional phrase being used to post-modify a noun phrase.
(Reference: https://www.sltinfo.com/prepositional-phrases/ )
There is a lack of context.
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I'd like to know if, according to the passage, the orange part has the same grammatical construction as the blue part, and may be substituted with the pronoun it.
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