A noun phrase – or NP or nominal (phrase) – is a phrase that usually has a noun or pronoun as its head, and has the same grammatical functions as a noun...

theory. Not every noun or a noun phrase that refers to a unique entity is a proper name. Chastity, for instance, is a common noun, even if chastity is...

of existence, and ideas. A noun may serve as an object or subject within a phrase, clause, or sentence. In linguistics, nouns constitute a lexical category...

This page is about noun phrases in Hungarian grammar. The order of elements in the noun phrase is always determiner, adjective, noun. With a few important...

adverbial phrase); and a determiner phrase is a type of noun phrase containing a determiner. Many common suffixes form nouns from other nouns or from other...

expression "the very happy squirrel" is a noun phrase which contains the adjective phrase "very happy". Phrases can consist of a single word or a complete...

PRO) is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase. Pronouns have traditionally been regarded as one of the parts of...

word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase. Its semantic role is to change information given by the noun. Traditionally adjectives are considered...

a phrase is the word that determines the syntactic category of that phrase. For example, the head of the noun phrase boiling hot water is the noun (head...

number, as through the plural –s morpheme. English nouns primarily function as the heads of noun phrases, which prototypically function at the clause level...