Noun Phrases

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1. A noun phrase is _______.

a group of words that has a noun in it.

a group of words that is headed by a noun and works as a noun in a sentence.

#2. Which of these is not a feature of a noun phrase?

It is headed by a noun.

It has one or more words that modify the noun.

The head noun in a noun phrase has to be singular.

#3. What can a noun phrase not function as in a


sentence?

The subject of a sentence

The predicate of a sentence

The object of a verb

#4. Which of these is true about a noun phrase?

A noun phrase can function as the subject complement.

A noun phrase can function as the adjective complement.

A noun phrase can function as the object complement.


#5. Which of these is not true about a noun phrase?

A pronoun can be the head word of a noun phrase.

A noun phrase can function as the object of a preposition.

The word or words that modify the head word of a noun phrase always come
before it.

#6. Which of these is a noun phrase?

Inside a house

About the match

A house

Have money

#7. Which of these is a noun phrase?

A beautiful

Some smart

A smart man

Full of zeal

#8. Which of these is not a noun phrase?

My day
The beginning of the movie

Near the house

A man

#9. Which of these is not a noun phrase?

The man who came for a job the day before yesterday

All day long

Unconditional love

Some people from the industry

#10. Which of these is not a noun phrase?

Indian people

A couch potato

A blessing in disguise

Hit the hay

#11. "I am going to give all of you another chance."


Select the noun phrase in the sentence.

am going

to give all of you


another chance

#12. "To make everyone happy, we have decided to


give everyone an extra holiday next month." Select
the noun phrase in the sentence.

an extra holiday

to make everyone happy

everyone happy

next month

#13. "My goal in life is very simple." Does the


sentence have a noun phrase in it?

Yes

No

#14. Which of these is not a type of a noun phrase?

Gerund phrase

Infinitive phrase

Participle phrase
#15. "Trust me, we were not scared of confronting
the boss the other day." Select the noun phrase.

Trust me

Confronting the boss

The other day

Scared of confronting

#16. "It is hard to believe that you want to marry


Sophie." Select the noun phrase.

To believe

To marry Sophie

You want to marry Sophie

#17. Which of these is not a structure of a noun


phrase?

Premodifier/s + noun

Noun + postmodifier/s

Premodifier/s + noun + postmodifier/s

Preposition + noun
#18. Which of these can't be a part of a premodifier
in a noun phrase?

Determiner

Adjective

Number

Prepositional phrase

#19. Which of these can't be a part of a postmodifier


in a noun phrase?

Prepositional phrase

Present participle phrase

Past participle phrase

Gerund phrase

#20. Which of these can't be a part of a postmodifier


in a noun phrase?

Infinitive phrase

Verb phrase

Adjective clause

Prepositional phrase
#21. Select the noun phrase.

What you are looking at

Under my leadership

Some of my family members

Justin Bieber

#22. Select the noun phrase.

Some tall black American people

From some of us

Love teaching English

Related to my career

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