qualifiers

◊ GRAMMAR

A qualifier is a word or group of words which comes after a noun and gives more information about the person or thing referred to. Qualifiers can be:

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• prepositional phrases

...a girl with red hair.

...the man in the dark glasses.

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• place adverbs or time adverbs

...down in the dungeon beneath.

...a reflection of life today in England.

See entries at ↑ Places and ↑ Time.

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• adjectives followed by phrases or clauses

...machinery capable of clearing rubble off the main roads.

...the sort of weapons likely to be deployed against it.

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• adjectives such as `concerned' and `available'

The idea needs to come from the individuals concerned.

...the person responsible for his death.

See entry at ↑ Adjectives.

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• relative clauses

The man who had done it was arrested.

...the town that John came from.

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• non-finite clauses

...two of the problems mentioned above.

...a simple device to test lung function.

See entries at ↑ '-ing' forms, ↑ Past participles, and ↑ 'To'-infinitive clauses.

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