Noun Phrase -- Phrase Structure Rules

This video describes the noun phrase in detail. Often a noun phrase is just a noun or a pronoun: People like to have money. I am tired. But noun phrases can also include: determiners: Those houses are very expensive. quantifiers: I've lived in a lot of houses. numbers: My brother owns two houses. adjectives: I love old houses. It can have postmodifiers, too. Postmodifiers can be: prepositional phrases: a man with a gun the boy in the blue shirt the house on the corner –ing phrases: the man standing over there. the boy talking to Angela. It can have relative clauses as well. #Phrase_Structure_Rules #Noun_Phrase_ in_syntax