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
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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.
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A noun phrase consists of a pronoun or noun with any associated
modifiers, including adjectives, adjective phrases, and other nouns in
the possessive case.
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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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