A NOUN PHRASE

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DEFINITION A NOUN PHRASE

A noun phrase or nominal phrase (abbreviated NP) is a phrase which has a noun (or indefinite pronoun) as its head word, or which performs the same grammatical function as such a phrase. Noun phrases are very common cross-linguistically, and they may be the most frequently occurring phrase type.

Noun phrases often function as verb subjects and objects, as predicative expressions, and as the complements of prepositions or postpositions. Noun phrases can be embedded inside each other; for instance, the noun phrase some of his constituents contains the shorter noun phrase his constituents.
In some modern theories of grammar, noun phrases with determiners are analyzed as having the determiner rather than the noun as their head; they are then referred to as determiner phrases.

The Basic Rules: Count and Noncount Nouns

A count noun is one that can be expressed in plural form, usually with an "s." For example, "cat—cats," "season—seasons," "student—students."

A noncount noun is one that usually cannot be expressed in a plural form. For example, "milk," "water," "air," "money," "food." Usually, you can't say, "He had many moneys."

Count and Noncount Nouns with Adjectives

Most of the time, this doesn't matter with adjectives. For example, you can say, "The cat was gray" or "The air was gray." However, the difference between a countable and uncountable noun does matter with certain adjectives, such as "some/any," "much/many," and "little/few."

Some/Any: Some and any countable and uncountable nouns.

• "There is some water on the floor."
• "There are some students here."
• "Do you have any food?"
• "Do you have any apples?"

Much/Many: Much modifies only uncountable nouns. Many modifies only countable nouns.

• "We don't have much time to get this done."
• "Many Americans travel to Europe."

Little/Few: Little modifies only uncountable nouns.

• "He had little food in the house."
• "The doctor had little time to think in the emergency room."

Few modifies only countable nouns.

• "There are few doctors in town."
• "Few students like exams."

Other basic rules

A lot of/lots of: A lot of/lots of are informal substitutes for much and many. They are used with uncountable nouns when they mean much and with countable nouns when they mean many.

• "They have lots of (much) money in the bank."
• "A lot of (many) Americans travel to Europe."
• "We got lots of (many) mosquitoes last summer."
• "We got lots of (much) rain last summer."

A little bit of:A little bit of is informal and always precedes an uncountable noun.

• "There is a little bit of pepper in the soup."
• "There is a little bit of snow on the ground."

Enough: Enough modifies both countable and uncountable nouns.

• "There is enough money to buy a car."
• "I have enough books to read."

Plenty of: Plenty of modifies both countable and uncountable nouns.

• "They have plenty of money in the bank."
• "There are plenty of millionaires in Switzerland."

No: No modifies both countable and uncountable nouns.

• "There is no time to finish now."
• "There are no squirrels in the park."

Contributors:Paul Lynch, Allen Brizee.
Summary:

This handout discusses the differences between count nouns and noncount nouns. Count nouns can be pluralized; noncount nouns cannot.

a means or an a (a, a, a, a, etc.) and put that in front of the noun explained.

A is used when the word that follows begins with the sound off, for example: a man, a star etc.. An berikunya used when the word beginning with the sound of life, for example: an astrich, an exam, etc..

A or an only followed by kat objects that can be counted (countable nouns) and a number one or a singular noun (singular).

Definite Article + Noun

 
is the definite article is the word clothing.
Example: the ship the soup the cars the models
Series of words he said above is the phrase object. The noun menarangkan ship, soup, cars models. Words ship, soup, cars, models are the words of the head; explained the chief said.

the often interpreted: the, the, earlier.

The objects that can be followed by one or a number of single, for example, the sea, the process, etc., or followed by the object of more than one or plural, as the people, the poets, etc., and can also be followed by an object that is not can be calculated, for example, the water, the nitrogen.

Demonstrative Adjective + Noun

 
is a demonstrative adjective is a word this, these, that, and those.
Example: This song That poem those disasters
That these tragedies this liquid stranger

Refrensi :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_phrase

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/owlprint/541/