Minggu, 17 Juni 2012

Noun Phrases

A noun phrase is other a single noun or any group of words containing noun or a pronoun that function together as a noun or pronoun, as the subject or object of a verb.

For example, ‘they’ , ‘books’, and ‘the books’, are noun phrases, but ‘book’ is just a noun, as you can see in these sentences (in which all the noun phrases are italic)


Structure of Noun Phrases:
-A beautiful old painting on the wall

When you use a noun in front of another noun, you never put adjectives between them, you put adjectives in front of the first noun.
Example : We just spoke with a young American boy

Noun phrase can be in form of gerund (base + ing) or gerund and other nouns compounding.
Example : Passing the exam watching TV


The Noun examples :
•       Persons: girl, boy, instructor, student, Mr. Smith, Peter, president
•       Animals: dog, cat, shark, hamster, fish, bear, flea
•        Places: gym, store, school, Minnesota, village, Europe
•       Things: computer, pen, notebook, mailbox, bush, tree, cornflakes
•       Ideas: liberty, panic, attention, knowledge, compassion, worship
The Functions of Nouns in Sentences :
                       1.Subject of the sentence
                       2.Predicate Noun (also Predicate Nominative or Subjective Complement)
                       3. Appositive (noun in apposition)
                       4. Direct object of a verb
                       5. Indirect object of a verb
                       6. Object of the preposition
                       7. Object Complement (Objective Complement)

Gerunds can also be classified as noun :
For example:
•       I like swimming
•       The word ‘swimming’  is a gerund

PHRASES
•       A  phrase is a group of related words that lacks both a subject and a predicate. Because it lacks a subject and a predicate it cannot act as a sentence.
•       A noun phrase consists of a pronoun or noun with any associated modifiers, including adjectives, adjective phrases, and other nouns in the possessive case.
•       Like a noun, a noun phrase can act as a subject, as the object of a verb or verbal, as a subject orobject complement, or as the object of a preposition, as in the following ...
•       Small children often insist that they can do it by themselves.

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