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Form

                     A noun phrase can be
                     ♦   a noun or a pronoun. For example,

                         y   He wore a turban.
                         y   People stood in a queue.
                     ♦   a demonstrative adjective or an article, and a noun. For example,

                         y   The boy broke a windowpane.
                         y   Those boys are very naughty.
                     ♦   an article and a combination of different kinds of adjectives, and a noun.
                         For example,

                         y   Mother bought a loaf of nice fresh brown bread.
                         y   That lovely attractive lady is my teacher.
                     Function

                     ♦   A noun phrase can act as a subject. For example,

                         y   The boy at the back is sleeping.
                     ♦   A noun phrase can act as an object. For example,
                         y   We bought a large bouquet of red roses.
                     ♦   A noun phrase can act as a complement to the verb. For example,

                         y   He is my younger brother.

                  2.  Prepositional Phrases
                     A prepositional phrase shows the relationship between a noun or a pronoun with
                     another word in a sentence. For example,

                     y   I like to work in the afternoons.
                     y   I didn’t visit him for years.
                     y   He put the book on the table.
                     Form

                     A prepositional phrase
                     ♦   consists of a preposition and a noun phrase. For example,

                         y   The store at the corner sells delicious cakes.
                         y   We stayed in a cottage by the beach.
                     Function

                     ♦   A prepositional phrase can tell us who did something. For example,

                         y   The Mona Lisa was painted by Leonardo da Vinci.
                         y   The vase was broken by Sudeep.





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