NOUN PHRASES

EXPLAIN ABOUT NOUN PHRASES :

Noun is a word that names a person, animal, place, thing, idea, or concept, or anything considered as noun.

 

 

 

The Noun examples :

 

•       Persons: girl, boy, instructor, student, Mr. Smith, Peter, president

•       Animals: dog, cat, shark, hamster, fish, bear, flea

•        Places: gym, store, school, Lake Minnetonka, 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.