41. Recent projects include research on the English Noun Phrase, Subordination in Spoken and Written English, and the English Verb Phrase . 42. The new verb phrase galloped on unimpeded, though, till a pair of zealous 20th-century language mavens decided to rein it in. 43. But there is " no " situation where " had of been " used as a verb phrase is ever correct. 44. A command always consists of a noun phrase ( the addressee ), followed by a comma, followed by an uncoordinated verb phrase . 45. The noun phrase ( NP ) that is the subject of the sentence is located in the specifier of the verb phrase . 46. But " cast away, " an active verb phrase conveying a hopeless man's sense that life, with dispassionate cruelty, has tossed him aside. 47. If a noun phrase occurs outside of the verb phrase then it is typically represented in the verb phrase by an appropriate pronoun. 48. Moreover, the noun determines prefixes of all words that modify it and subject determines prefixes of other elements in the same verb phrase . 49. I would add that the original verb phrase carried a second sense, " understood, " as in the exchange : " Capish ?" 50. If a noun phrase occurs outside of the verb phrase then it is typically represented in the verb phrase by an appropriate pronoun.
