... admired.(i-viiiB,001-328B) whl bk.indd 52 3/16/09 12: 34: 00 PM 48 Noun Phrases 3. The senator from California expressed her concern about the problem. 4. A reporter in China broke the story about the ... dinner with friends is always a great pleasure.(i-viiiB,001-328B) whl bk.indd 48 3/16/09 12:33:59 PMPost-Noun Modifi ers 49 As you can see, the third-person pronoun substitution test shows that ... noun and prepositional phrase, proving the prepositional phrase is part of the noun phrase and thus a noun modifi er.Exercise 4. 3Underline all the prepositional phrases in the following sentences....