NOUN PHRASES

WHAT IS NOUN?

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

SEE 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)

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.

NOUN PHRASES

• 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 ...

Examples:

• SUBJECT

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

• OBJECT OF A VERB

    They have found Eugene's goal.

• OBJECT OF A PREPOSITION

    The arctic explorers were caught unawares by the spring break up.

• SUBJECT COMPLEMENT

    Frankenstein is the name of the scientist not the monster.

• OBJECT COMPLEMENT

    I consider Loki my favourite cat.