Noun Phrase

 

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 or object complement, or as the object of a preposition, as in the following ...

Small children often insist that they can do it by themselves.