Overview
Go through the first two sentences of Chapter 2 of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, given in the file below and identify all noun phrases that you can. Provide evidence for each, for example in the form of pronoun substitution. Finally, identify the head of the noun phrase. (SSLOs a,b) The two sentences are given below (and you can see them in the picture below).
- Nearly ten years had passed since the Dursleys had woken up to find their nephew on the front step, but Privet Drive had hardly changed at all. The sun rose on the same tidy front gardens and lit up the brass number four on the Dursley’s front door; it crept into their living room, which was almost exactly the same as it had been on the night when Mr. Dursley had seen that fateful news report about the owls.
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