Senin, 20 Februari 2012


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 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.


A noun phrase is either a single noun or pronoun or a 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.

EXAMPLES OF NOUN PHRASES:
e.g.: John was late.
('John' is the noun phrase functioning as the subject of the verb.)

e.g: The people that I saw coming in the building at nine o'clock have just left.
('The people ... nine o'clock' is a lengthy noun phrase, but it functions as the subject of the main verb 'have just left'.)



formation of noun phrase:


a) Idefinite Article(a/an) + Noun
   examples : a truck,                  an examination,                        an investment
(truck is headword, a is word that describe the head.)

b) Definite Article(The) + Noun
examples : the ship,               the soup,           the cars,            the model
(ship, soup, cars,model are headword)

c) Demonstrative Adjective(this, these, that, those
) + Noun
examples : This song,                      That poem,                   those disasters
                 That stranger,                These tragedies,           this liquid

d) Possessive Adjective(my, her, your, etc) + Noun
examples : Her computers,                   your ideas,                    brittany’s question

Numerals
example :
  • two tympanis (=dua buah timpani)
  • Four members (=empat orang anggota)
  • Three guest (=ketiga tamu)
> Quantitative adjective(some, any, much,etc) + Noun
examples: some marvels,                        much wine,                   many wife
>Qualitative adjective + Noun

is words that indicate the nature or circumstances of an object, such as: white, large,Important, harmless, etc.. examples: kind treatments,                    clear sky,                      underpaid works

Noun phrase with the formation Of
Of is used to merge the two nouns or noun phrases, which are in front of the noun is a partof or behind the noun belongs to OF and noun phrases to form a new whole; phrase this thing can still be connected with another of the phrases to infinity.
Example: the roof of the house

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