English grammar NounPhrase

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ENGLISH NOUN

PHRASE



DEFINITION

CLASSIFICATION

COMPONENTS

FUNCTIONS4

1

2

3

ENGLISH NOUN PHRASE



A phrase whose head is a noun or a pronoun, optionallyaccompanied by a set of modifiers.

wikipedia.com

A single noun or pronoun or a group of words containing anoun or a pronoun that function together as a noun or

pronoun, as the subject or object of a verb.

usingenglish.co

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A word or group of words that functions syntactically as

a noun, e.g. as the subject, object, or topic, in a clause or sentence.

Encarta®

Dictionary

A word or group of words in a sentence that behaves in

the the same way as a noun, that is as a subject, an object, a

complement, or as the object of a preposition

Oxford

Dictionary

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrase

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_(linguistics)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronoun

http://www.usingenglish.com/glossary/noun.html

http://www.usingenglish.com/glossary/pronoun.html

http://www.usingenglish.com/glossary/object.html


http://www.usingenglish.com/glossary/subject.html

































http://www.usingenglish.com/glossary/subject.html



http://www.usingenglish.com/glossary/pronoun.html

http://www.usingenglish.com/glossary/noun.html



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_(linguistics)






PROPER NPs COMMON NPs

DICTIONARY NON-DICTIONARY

COMPLEXSIMPLE

Eg: Tom Smith, WTO, etc. Eg: a nice gift, education systems, etc.

ENGLISH NOUN PHRASE Eg: local movie theatre

Eg: computer game, school age,etc.

Eg: small car



Components of noun

phrase

Head

Modifiers

Stress in simple word

1

2

3



Head

• The word that determines

the syntactic type of the

phrase of which it is a

member, or analogouslythe stem that determines

the semantic category of

a compound of which it is

a component. The other elements modify the

head.

Head of NP

• The noun or pronoun

around which the other

parts gather together. The

head determines concord with the part of the

sentence outside the

noun phrase.

Head of NP

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_stem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics)



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreement_(linguistics)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreement_(linguistics)



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_stem


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax



• Head placement: – Songbird, A red car head final

– Birdsong, A student of English head initial

• Determine the agreement with other parts of

sentence :

– The change in the Asian economies is unprecedented.

– The changes in Japan's economy are most

unexpected

Examples of NP’s head



Modifiers

• Definition :Optional

components of nounphrases giving additional

information about thenoun.



Modifiers

Pre-modifiers

Post-modifiers

BY

Modifiers’

Placement

in NP



Pre-modifiersDefinition: All the words place before the head. These

words are usually :• determiners

• adjectives

• nouns.

:E.g.:• That sophisticated city woman

(determiner), "sophisticated" (adjective), "city" (noun);woman (head))

• Many honest down and out small-town businessmen

("Many" (determiner), "honest" (adjective), "down and out"(adjective phrase), "small-town" (noun); businessmen (head)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determiner_(class)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjective



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjective





Determiners

articles

demonstratives

numeralspossessives

quantifier s

the,

a

this,

that

two,

five, etc.)

my ,their ,

etc

some,many , etc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_(grammar)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonstratives


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerals

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possessive_adjective


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantifiers


















Adjective ,noun

Adj:

A single adjective

E.g.: red hair, brown eyes.

≥ 2 adjectives :

red rounded eyesNoun: Science student, mother tongue



Post-modificationDefinition : words in the noun phrase that follow

the head, usually consist of :• Complement :

- prepositional phrases

- nonfinite clauses• (non)-restrictive relative clauses.

E.g:• The man in the reading room... (prepositional phrase)

• All the boys skating on the street... (non-finite clause)

• The car that I bought my wife... (restrictive relative clause)

• The house, which my partner and I bought a month after wemet , ... (non-restrictive relative clause)



Complements• Prepositional phrase

E.g:The student of physics,

• That-clause E.g:The claim that the earth is round

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepositional_phrase

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That-clause




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepositional_phrase



Function



1. Subject

• The fat cat

sat on the

mat



2. Subject Complement

• Her mother

will become

the school librarian.



3. Direct Object

• Your

boyfriend just

kissed the girl

in the blue

dress.



4. Object complement

We

elected

you teamleader .



5. Indirect Object

• The groom

bought a

wedding

present for

his new bride.



Prepositional Complement

• During his vacation, the

man decided to move to

the Tropics.



7. Noun Phrase Modifier

• The

bedroom

walls are all

oak panels.



8. Possessive Modifier

• Why did

your

mother-in-

law's catrun away?



9. Appositive

• John Smith,

the colonial

captain,

founded

Jamestown in1607.



10. Adverbial

I go to the

churchevery

Sunday morning.

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