Mastering Noun Phrases

After understanding what is a noun phrase, let’s know about its types: 

Simple Noun Phrases: Simple noun phrase is a type of noun phrase where a group of words including noun phrases form a sentence. Noun is the main work or key element of the phrase while others give information about it. 

For instance, 

• “My black gym socks are in the drawer”

Here, My black gym socks is a noun phrase while other words are giving information about it. 

Expanded Noun Phrases: Expanded noun phrases is a type of phrase that adds one or more than one adjective to add detail to the noun. 

Article + Adjective + Noun 

For instance, 

• “The beautiful box.”
• “A mysterious forest.” 

Here, ” A and The” are articles, ” beautiful and mysterious” are adjectives, and ” box and forest” are nouns. 

Appositive Noun Phrases: Appositive noun phrase is a type of phrase that follows the noun phrase and gives additional information about the same. 

For instance,

• “Jack, my sister, lives in Melbourne.” 

An appositive noun is used with a complement as a subject. 

Gerund Noun Phrases: The type of noun phrase is a collection or group of words that include gerund, modifier, pronoun, or a noun phrase that will act as a complement, direct or indirect object. 

For instance, 

• ” Eating a slice of cake quickly is a disaster.” 

Here, eat +ing is a gerund noun. 

Infinitive Noun Phrases: Infinitive phrases is a type of noun phrase that includes an infinitive verb, modifier, pronoun, or noun that will function as a direct object or complement. In addition, it includes noun phrase actions or states that depict infinitives. 

For instance,

• “He will leave early” 

Here the time or action is infinitive. 

Prepositional Noun Phrases: Prepositional noun phrase is a type of noun phrase that starts with a preposition and will end with a noun, noun phrase, or pronoun. 

For instance,

• ” Without sugar is how I prefer my coffee”