Noun Phrases

           Phrase (phrase) is a group of words (2 words or more) that can function as a noun (noun), as a verb (verb), as an adjective ( adj ), or as an adverb (adverb). With the exception of the absolute phrase, the phrase has no subject. A phrase can contain: phrase.

Noun phrases or noun phrase is a phrase consisting of nouns or pronouns (as head) and modifiers.

Modifiers that usually accompanies nouns are:
- Determiners (articles, demonstratives, numbers, possessives, quantifiers)
- Adjectives, adjective phrases, adjective clauses
- Relative clauses

As with nouns, noun phrases also have a function as subject or object in a sentence. Consider the following example below:
- My coach is happy.
- I like the cars over there.
- The woman WHO lives there is my aunt.
- Frankenstein is the name of the scientist not the monster.
- I Consider Meow my favorite paint.
- Small children INSIST That Often They can do it by themselves.
- To read Quickly and accurately is John's goal.
- Two of my guests have arrived.
- Mr. Jones spoke to Dr. James.
- My friend works with her father.

Noun phrase always has a noun as head. And generally determiners and adjective phrases occupy a position as a pre-modifiers or pre-head. Example:
- The children
- Happy children
- The happy children

After the head, put a long post-modifiers are not limited to, for example: the dog That chased the cat That killed the mouse ate the cheese That That was made from the milk That Came from the cow that ...

In fact, the use of post-modifiers throughout the examples above are rarely used, not even once.

Head of the noun phrase is not necessarily a noun, can also be pronouns (pronouns).
Example:
- I like coffee.
- The waitress Gave me the wrong dessert.
- This is my car.

If accepted as head of pronouns, the noun phrase that generally has a head (a pronoun) that's it. This is because pronouns do not require determiners or adjectives, so pre-modifiers are not needed. However, a few pronouns, it is possible to add post-modifiers.
[Those WHO arrive late] can not be admitted Until the interval.

Likewise, numbers, can occupy the position as head of the noun phrase.
[Two of my guests] have arrived
[The first to arrive] was John.