noun phrase
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4.2
- noun
- /naʊn freɪz/
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frase nominal
- A noun phrase can serve as the subject of a sentence, such as "The tall man walked by."
- S2 noun phrase
- elaborated noun phrases
- long noun phrases
Examples
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Elaborated noun phrases and conjunctions, especially, occurred relatively frequently in the productions of both ethnic groups.
Academic text (2012) -
So a noun phrase is like the black cat or congestive obstructive pulmonary disease.
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Note the three balanced adjective/noun phrases.
Fiction book (1996) -
It's not just a constituent, it's a noun phrase, right?
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So this noun phrase shouldn't be able to refer to Mary.
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It's the head of the noun phrase, and the specifier, which agrees with the head, is this.
Blog text (12) -
By contrast, pulp-style titles tend toward short, prosaic noun phrases; for example, "First Contact."
Academic text (1990) -
One powerful means of producing a lexically dense style is by using nominalizations to build long noun phrases.
Academic text (2003) -
Second, there are relatively few extended noun phrases with multiple modifiers; the names of the actors here—
Academic text (2005) -
The graphology disrupts the syntax: sometimes noun phrases are isolated; sometimes a verbal process is left hanging in nonfinite form.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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7.4
A word or phrase that acts like a noun in a sentence
A group of words with a noun as the main word acting as subject or object
Surface Forms
Morphology
The term 'noun phrase' is transparently compositional: it denotes a 'phrase' that functions as a 'noun' (i.e., a group of words acting as a noun). This grammatical labeling follows standard cross-linguistic patterns and is directly inferable by a B1 learner who knows 'noun' and 'phrase'.
Etymology
The term noun phrase gives a simple image: it is a phrase (a small group of words) that acts like a noun in a sentence. So it means 'a group of words' that works as the 'subject' or 'object' of a verb.