What part of speech the word in paren

The (newspaper) article about our school play was posted on the bulletin board.



Did you see the headlines in today's (newspaper)?

(1) The newspaper article.

(2) Today's newspaper.

In both examples, "newspaper" is a noun. In (1) it is modifying "article", which is the head of the noun phrase "The newspaper article". In (2) it is head of the noun phrase "Today's newspaper".


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