postmodification (n.)

A term used in some grammatical DESCRIPTIONS to refer to all the ITEMS which occur after the HEAD of a PHRASE (an ENDOCENTRIC phrase), e.g. The cars in the garage are expensive. In English, three main types of postmodifying structure are recognized: PREPOSITIONAL phrases (e.g. the cars in the garage . . . ), FINITE (RELATIVE) CLAUSES (e.g. the car which was in the garage . . .) and non-finite (INFINITIVE or PARTICIPIAL) clauses, e.g. the car parked in the street . . . , the car to buy . . .