Friday, 29 March 2024, 12:29 PM
Site: edulabs.org academy
Course: Activity Examples (Activity Examples)
Glossary: Linguistic Library (Mike Green)
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Head word

The head or head word of a phrase is the word around which the phrase is built, i.e. the main word that determines the core meaning of the whole phrase, e.g.

  • in the noun phrase the old-fashioned door, the head word is door
  • in the verb phrase, might have been hit the head word is hit.