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 ...

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 ...