Question

1a. What is a noun phrase? (3 marks)

b. What is the relationship between a noun and a noun phrase? (3 marks)
c. Name 4 components of a noun phrase. (2 marks)
d. What is the head word in a noun phrase? (2 marks)
2. Give the function of the underlined phrases in the sentences below.
a. All the rotten baskets of tomatoes have been thrown away.
b. Tomilola gave her mother a beautiful gold trinket box.
c. Joan is a smart little girl.
d. We have eaten most of the bananas in the fridge.
e. I couldn’t pick any reasonable opinion from your suggestions.

Answer 1

1a. a word or group of words containing a noun and functioning in a sentence as subject, object, or prepositional object.

1b. Thing expressions are basically things with modifiers. Fair as things can act as subjects, objects, and prepositional objects, so can thing expressions. Additionally, thing expressions can moreover work in a sentence as descriptive words, participles, infinitives, and prepositional or supreme expressions. The modifier can come some time recently or after the thing.

1c. determiners, adjective phrases, noun adjuncts, attributive adjectives.

1d. The head or nucleus of a phrase is the word that determines the syntactic category of that phrase.