Abstrakt:
This bachelor paper focuses on both phrasal and clausal postmodification of nouns in English, namely in Newspaper discourse. The theoretical part of this bachelor paper provides a description of noun phrases and their most prominent syntactic functions. Furthermore, attention is paid to individual forms and their functions of postmodifiers within the phrasal and clausal types. Subsequently, newspaper discourse is described with attention to the difference between tabloids and broadsheet newspapers. The practical part is based on the information gathered in the theoretical part, therefore, it provides quantitative and qualitative analysis of postmodifiers within the given discourse. Additionally, the practical part also focuses on the syntactic functions of the head nouns. Thought out the whole practical part, the differences between using postmodifiers within broadsheets and tabloids are considered.