Nominal phrases

Nominal Phrases

A noun phrase includes a noun(a person,place,or thing) and the modifiers which distinguish it.

What are nominal phrases?

Function

Some of the most common functions of noun phrases are.....

Examples

Modifiers can come before or after the noun. Ones that come before might include articles, possessive nouns, possessive pronouns, adjectives, and\or participles.

For example, you can find the noun dog in a sentence but you dont know which dog it means until you consider the entire noun phrase: that dog, Aunt Audreys dog, the dog on the sofa, etc.

Articles: a dog, the dog.

Possessive nouns: Aunt Audreys dog, the police officers dog.

Possessive pronouns: our dog,her dog, their dog.

Adjectives: that dog, the big dog,etc.

Participles: the drooling dog, the barking dog, the well trained dog.

A noun phrase can be a subject

Anoun phrase can be a direct object

A noun phrase can be the object of a prepposition

A noun phrase can be an indirect object

Examples of noun phrase as subject:

The yellow house is for sale.

Examples of noun phrase as direct object:

I want a skate board.

Examples of noun phrase as object of preposition:

Jeff rode on a skate board.

Example of noun phrase as indirect object:

Lisa gave the little boy a candy.

Personal Conclusion:

Nominal phrase also known as NP is the phrase which is locate it almost every time at the beginning in a sentence. Its function is to identify the subject in a phrase , it could be a person, thing , animal, place, things or ideas.

It is form by a noun or pronoun and modifiers or complement.