PHRASES AND NOUN

PHRASE IN ENGLISH
 CONTENT
1. Phrases in English
2. Nouns in English
3. Nouns to Noun Phrase
4. Understanding of a Noun
Phrase
5. Building a Noun Phrase
A Phrase is a small group of
words that adds meaning to a
sentence. A phrase is not a
sentence because it is not a
complete idea with a subject,
verb and a predicate.
PHRASES IN ENGLISH
1. NOUN PHRASE: A vase of roses stood on the table.
2. VERB PHRASE: I will be going to college next year.
3. ADJECTIVE PHRASE: He’s led a very interesting life.
4. ADVERBIAL PHRASE: They wanted to leave the country as
fast as possible.
5. PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE: The dog was hiding under the
kitchen table.

Of course, we also use the word phrase to refer to a

short group of words that have a particular meaning
when they are used together, such as rain cats and dogs,
play for time, or a square meal. This type of phrase is
often referred to as an idiom.
NOUNS IN ENGLISH
A noun is a word which is used to show a
person (traffic policeman, man, President,
musician etc.), a thing (binoculars, fork, field,
truth) or a place (office, garden, railway
station).

These are all COMMON NOUNS; there are

also PROPER NOUNS which are the names of
a specific person, place, event etc., usually
starting with a capital letter, for
example,Ulaanbaatar, Khosoo, Tsagaan sar,
Friday.
NOUNS TO NOUN PHRASE
A NOUN can be extended to a NOUN PHRASE. In
the example phrases given below, the noun (in the
first example) and the noun phrase (in the remaining
examples) is in bold. Note how much the noun phrase
can be extended by adding extra information each
time.
Dogs can be vicious
Some dogs can be vicious
Some of the dogs can be vicious
Some of the bigger dogs can be vicious
Some of the bigger dogs in the dog pound can be
vicious
NOUN PHRASE DEFINITION
We gave a clear definition of what a NOUN is in
an earlier slide, but now we need to consider this
in more detail taking into account what nouns
might look like, what their purpose is, where they
occur in sentences and how they interact with
other words. The first thing to note is what
spaces they can occupy in a sentence - they can
take on the role of:
- the subject of a verb: the camera never lies
- the object of a verb: the police arrested the
criminal
- the complement: he became a barrister
BUILDING A NOUN PHRASE
A noun phrase is built around a single noun.
Quite often NOUNS will occur with other
words, or a combination of other words, to make
up NOUN PHRASES- some possibilities include:
1. with an article: the government, an insect
2. with an adjective: good times, legal wrangle
3. with a preposition: by car, under dress
4. with a quantifier: many dangers, loads of
friends
5. with other determiners: your fault, these
houses
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