Need help with noun phrases!!!

1) a red hat that doesn't suit me -- The clause postmodifies hat, which is the head noun.

2) three pounds of sausages at a go -- Of sausages postmodifies pounds; at a go is a sentence adverb.

3) We shall have friends to dinner & read the papers -- Dinner is a noun.

4) so that people who know me are not too shocked and surprised -- This is not a complete sentence, it is a dependent clause; it cannot be a phrase, because it has a subject and verb (plus an embedded clause); I cannot tell its function without the rest of the sentence, but I surmise is it an adverbial.

5) The connectivity offered by the digital age -- Offered...age is a nonfinite clause postmodifying connectivity.

6) our public housing policy that encourages a diverse mix of races --  Housing is a noun acting as an adjective; that...races modifies policy.

7) this single belief in making our diversity our strength -- In...strength modifies belief.

Hi

Ohayo wrote:

Mister Micawber wrote: 3) We shall have friends to dinner & read the papers -- Dinner is a noun. Since "dinner" is a noun, does "to dinner" modifies "friends"? The full sentence is this - So that people who know me are not too shocked and surprised when suddenly I am old and start to wear purple. Thus is "who know me are not too shocked and surprised" or just "who know me" modifies people?

We shall have friends to dinner(,) and (we shall) read the paper.

"Since 'dinner' is a noun??, does 'to dinner' modifies 'friends'?" No.

'to dinner' is a prep phrase, and modifies the verb phrase: 'shall have'.

Ohayo wrote:

Inchoateknowledge wrote: We shall have friends to dinner(,) and (we shall) read the paper. "Since 'dinner' is a noun??, does 'to dinner' modifies 'friends'?" No. 'to dinner' is a prep phrase, and modifies the verb phrase: 'shall have'. But a prep phrase can be a postmodifier to the head noun right?

Yes, but this is not the case here.

flights to Los Angeles is a noun phrase and the prep phrase to LA postmodifies the head: flights.

So that people who know me are not too shocked and surprised when suddenly I am old and start to wear purple-- this is still not a complete sentence.  So that is a subordinating conjunction; the whole thing is a dependent clause. 

However, a clause within the clause, 'who know me', modifies people.