Many linguistics books breeze over this. Rarely is this relationship formally accounted for. One way to account for this formally is to refer to the propositional structure of the noun phrase. In ...

Nelson, Gerald 2015. Response to Davies and Fuchs. English World-Wide. A Journal of Varieties of English, Vol. 36, Issue. 1, p. 38.

Liu, Yingying and McManus, Kevin 2023. Investigating the psychological reality of argument structure constructions and N1 of N2 constructions: a comparison between L1 and L2 speakers of English.

Narrator: Nice use of your nouns there. Beast, lake and boat. How about we expand those noun phrases? Expanded noun phrases tell you more about the noun. So, 'there's a beast' could be expanded to ...

While these are useful, they often add wordiness and length to sentences for no reason. Instead of an infinitive phrase, try using finite verbs or noun phrases. Circumlocutions are commonly used ...