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Kamis, 17 Februari 2011

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.

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