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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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