NOUN PHRASES

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

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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 associatedmodifiers, including adjectives, adjective phrases, and other nouns in thepossessive 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 apreposition, as in the following ...

           •       Small children often insist that they can do it by themselves.