Noun Phrases

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Definition

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.