Jumat, 05 Februari 2010

NOUN PHRASE

Noun phrase

A noun phrase is either a single noun or pronoun or any group of words containing a 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 the noun phrases are all in bold)

Example 1:

Shaggy: Do you like APPLES?

Bean : Yes, I like THEM .

Shaggy: Do you like APPLES over there?

Bean : Yes, they are nice.

Shaggy: Do you like the APPLE I brought yesterday?

Bean : Yes, I like it. (Note: ‘It’ refers to ‘the APPLE’, not ‘APPLE’)

Example 2:

Asrie was late.

(‘Asrie’ is the noun phrase functioning as the subject of the verb.)

Some noun phrases are short: The students

Some are long : The very tall education consultant

Structures of noun phrases:

A beautiful old painting on the wall

The structure of this noun phrase contains three sections:

Pre-modifier

Head noun

Post-modifier

A beautiful old

painting

on the wall

A beautiful old

painting

-

-

painting

on the wall

This is the table of the adjectives that are combined with the nouns:

Determiner

Opinion adjectives

Descriptive adjectives

Nouns

General

specific

size

shape

age

colour

nationality

material

A

Lovely

comfortable

big

-

-

-

-

Wooden

chair

The

Cheap

-

-

-

new

black

German

-

car

Large

round

-

-

-

metal

table

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 (Vbase+ing) or gerund and other nouns compounding.

Example: passing the exam watching TV

preparing the equipment sliding down a rope

going to school diving board

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