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Premodification that comprises all the units placed before the head: two smart hard-working students. Adjuncts used in pre-head position are called pre-posed adjuncts. Postmodification that comprises all the units all the units placed after the head: students from Boston. Adjuncts used in post-head position are called post-posed adjuncts. Mixed modification that comprises all the units in both pre-head and post-head position: two smart hard-working students from Boston.

) Noun-phrases with pre-posed adjuncts.noun-phrases with pre-posed modifiers we generally find adjectives, pronouns, numerals, participles, gerunds, nouns, nouns in the genitive case (see the table) [8; p. 43]. According to their position all pre-posed adjuncts may be divided into pre-adjectivals and adjectiavals. The position of adjectivals is usually right before the noun-head. Pre-adjectivals occupy the position before adjectivals. They fall into two groups: a) limiters (to this group belong mostly particles): just, only, even, etc. and b) determiners (articles, possessive pronouns, quantifiers - the first, the last).of nouns by nouns (N+N) is one of the most striking features about the grammatical organization of English. It is one of devices to make our speech both laconic and expressive at the same time. Noun-adjunct groups result from different kinds of transformational shifts. NPs with pre-posed adjuncts can signal a striking variety of meanings:peace - peace all over the worldbox - a box made of silverlamp - lamp for tableslegs - the legs of the tablesand - sand from the riverchild - a child who goes to schoolgrammatical relations observed in NPs with pre-posed adjuncts may convey the following meanings:

subject-predicate relations: weather change; object relations: health service, women hater; adverbial relations: a) of time: morning star,

b) place: world peace, country house,) comparison: button eyes,) purpose: tooth brush.is important to remember that the noun-adjunct is usually marked by a stronger stress than the head.special interest is a kind of ‘grammatical idiom’ where the modifier is reinterpreted into the head: a devil of a man, an angel of a girl.

) Noun-phrases with post-posed adjuncts.with post-posed may be classified according to the way of connection into prepositionless and prepositional. The basic prepositionless NPs with post-posed adjuncts are: Nadj. - tea strong, NVen - the shape unknown, NVing - the girl smiling, ND - the man downstairs, NVinf - a book to read, NNum - room ten.pattern of basic prepositional NPs is N1 prep. N2. The most common preposition here is ‘of’ - a cup of tea, a man of courage. It may have quite different meanings: qualitative - a woman of sense, predicative - the pleasure of the company, objective - the reading of the newspaper, partitive - the roof of the house.

) The verb-phrase.VP is a definite kind of the subordinate phrase with the verb as the head. The verb is considered to be the semantic and structural centre not only of the VP but of the whole sentence as the verb plays an important role in making up primary predication that serves the basis for the sentence. VPs are more complex than NPs as there are a lot of ways in which verbs may be combined in actual usage. Valent properties of different verbs and their semantics make it possible to divide all the verbs into several groups depending on the nature of their complements [7; p. 91].of verb-phrases.can be classified according to the nature of their complements - verb complements may be nominal (to see a house) and adverbial (to behave well). Consequently, we distinguish nominal, adverbial and mixed complementation.complementation takes place when one or more nominal complements (nouns or pronouns) are obligatory for the realization of potential valency of the verb: to give smth. to smb., to phone smb., to hear smth.(smb.), etc.complementation occurs when the verb takes one or more adverbial elements obligatory for the realization of its potential valency: He behaved well, I live …in Kyiv (here).complementation - both nominal and adverbial elements are obligatory: He put his hat on he table (nominal-adverbial).to the structure VPs may be basic or simple (to take a book) - all elements are obligatory; expanded (to read and translate the text, to read books and newspapers) and extended (to read an English book).

) Predicative word-groups.word combinations are distinguished on the basis of secondary predication. Like sentences, predicative word-groups are binary in their structure but actually differ essentially in their organization. The sentence is an independent communicative unit based on primary predication while the predicative word-group is a dependent syntactic unit that makes up a part of the sentence. The predicative word-group consists of a nominal element (noun, pronoun) and a non-finite form of the verb: N + Vnon-fin. There are Gerundial, Infinitive and Participial word-groups (complexes) in the English language: his reading, for me to know, the boy running, etc.)

. Semantic features of word-groups

word-group is the largest two-facet lexical unit comprising more than one word but expressing one global concept.lexical meaning of the word groups is the combined lexical meaning of the component words. The meaning of the word groups is motivated by the meanings of the component members and is supported by the structural pattern. But it’s not a mere sum total of all these meanings! Polysemantic words are used in word groups only in 1 of their

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