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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ELEMENTS OF
01 DEFINITIO 02 BASIC NOUN
N PHRASE
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03 SYNTACTIC FUNTIONS OF A BASIC
NOUN PHRASE
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 01.
DEFINITION
The basic noun phrase
 Definiton
• A noun phrase: is a group of two or more words
headed by a noun that includes modifiers
ex: The young man is talking about his father .

• Basic noun phrase: consist of pronouns,

numerals, or nouns with articles (indefinite, definite
or zero) or nouns with other closed-system items
that occur before the noun head including pre-
determiners (pre-det), determiners (det.) and post-
determiners.
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ELEMENT
S
Elements of basic noun phrase
Basic noun
phrase

Closed- system Pre- modifiers Head Noun (s)

Pre-determiners Determiners Post-determiners

2.1 Closed- system
Pre- modifiers
a. Determiners:
- Determiners is a word that is used
before a noun to show which
pariticular example of the noun you
are refferring to.
Determiners

- In the basic noun phrase, these words are central elements of

pre-modifiers

- 6 subclasses:

==> The first of all is Article Determiners

 Article Determiners
Indefinite article: a, an Definite article: the
Definition: “a” or “an” is used to noun
“ The “ is used to give
“a”things which are not
talk about Classification:
-Use information aboutofparticular
Count andor
particular . Usually, these are Ex: Iofsee
“The”
a boyininCase
the park.
- is used before the nouns that begin
things that haven’t been Non-known nouns
count Nouns
with a consonant sound. “Article
the”Ex:
can either
the boy,bethe
used with
girl, thenon-
book,
mentioned before or that the Determiners: The speaker is
Ex: a man, a woman, a book, a pen, a count nouns
listener is unfamiliar with …
talking aboutorathe
boyarticle
who iscan be
unknown to
cat... omitted
him. entirely.For example:
“an” noun

- is used before the nouns that begin
with vowel sound.
Ex: an apple, an eraser, an egg,..
Ex: I see the boy in the park.
Article Determiners: The speaker is
talking about the boy who is known both
to the speaker and the listener.
Use of “The “ in Case of
Geography
 Possessive: my, your, his, her, their
Definition: introduces a noun that
belongs to someone

Ex: Possessive Noun

His car is really fast.

Possessive Noun

Their house is beautiful.

2.1 Closed- system Pre- modifiers
a. Determiners
- Determiners is a noun that is used before a noun to show which pariticular
example of the noun you are refferring to.
- In the basic noun phrase, these words are central elements of pre-modifiers
- 6 subclasses:
+ Article Determiners ( Central- determiners)
+ Possessive

+ Demonstrative
Demonstrative: this, that, these, those
Thi It suggests
Provides that the noun
information is near
about which Thes
to specific noun or they
It suggests that the noun is
the speaker
theand is singular. plural and near to the
s
describe position of an object, seen from the
Ex: This book
speaker’s is very intersting.
viewpoint. e speaker.
Ex: These are my pens.
Noun Phrase
Demonstrative
Thos
That It suggests that the noun is far
from the speaker and is singular.
It tells that the noun is far
from the speaker and is
Ex: That is my book. e plural.
Ex: Those are my pens.
Demonstrative
Demonstrative
2.1 Closed- system Pre- modifiers
a. Determiners
- Determiners is a noun that is used before a noun to show which pariticular
example of the noun you are refferring to.
- In the basic noun phrase, these words are central elements of pre-modifiers
- 6 subclasses:
+ Article Determiners
+ Possessive
+ Demonstrative

+ Interrogative
 Interrogative:
whose, which,
what
They indicate which thing or person is being
referred to
Ex: I have a dog whose fur is snow white.

Interrogative

Ex: which colour, whose books, …

2.1 Closed- system Pre- modifiers
a. Determiners
- Determiners is a noun that is used before a noun to show which pariticular
example of the noun you are refferring to.
- In the basic noun phrase, these words are central elements of pre-modifiers
- 6 subclasses:
+ Article Determiners ( Central- determiners)
+ Possessive
+ Demonstrative
+ Interrogative

+ Indefinite
 Indefinite: some, any, every,
These pronouns are used to show unspecified objects or each,…
people, whether in plural or in singular.
They are used to indicate the entire noun or some of the noun
or none of the noun.
They are used when we want to refer to group of nouns
 without actually specifying who or how much.

Ex: Each boy was given a prize.

Indefinite
Ex: some water, any cars, every
student,
2.1 Closed- system Pre- modifiers
a. Determiners
- Determiners is a noun that is used before a noun to show which pariticular
example of the noun you are refferring to.
- In the basic noun phrase, these words are central elements of pre-modifiers
- 6 subclasses:
+ Article Determiners ( Central- determiners)
+ Possessive
+ Demonstrative
+ Interrogative
+ Indefinite

+ Quantifier
Quantifiers are used at the begging of noun phrases. They
are used to express an amount or a degree of something.
They also used with persons.
Ex: There are much fog outside today
How many books are there?
Ex: much water, much money, many hats…

Quantifier
b. Pre-determiners
- A pre-determiners is a word that is used to put in front of others determiners in
noun phrase.
- Pre-determiners specify quantity in the noun which follows them, and they are of
three major types

Inclusives: all, Multipliers: double, Fractions: one-

half twice, three times,… fourth, third-fifths,..
Ex: all the books, all the
boys, half an hour, half Ex: double your salary, … Ex: one-third (of) the
the men,… doctor.
c. Post-determiners
- A post- determiners is a word that is used to put after pre-determiner and central
determiner.
- Words coming after Determiners:
Numerals:

Cardinal: one, Ordinal: First, General ordinal: next, Some quantifiers:

two, three,.. second, last, previous,… many, several,..
Ex: one apple, two third,..
Ex: first pan, Ex: his last order, our Ex: his several
apples, three boys,… second book,… next question,… achievements, his
many children,…
 2.1.2 Head
Noun(s)
A "head noun" is the main noun that is modified by other elements in a noun phrase.
- It is important that you can find head nouns, because this allows you determine
whether the phrase can take an indefinite article (if the head noun is a noncountnoun,
then it cannot occur with 'a' or 'an')..
- Like in the basic noun phrase, the head noun, first of all, is the central element and core
component of the noun phrase.

Example: The second black bag on the table is very nice.

head noun
3. Syntactic
functions of a basic
noun phrase
 3.1
Common
Syntactic
functions: S, 0, C
 A/
SUBJECT
a person
Example or thing that is being discussed,
1:
described,uncle
My_____ or dealt
is with.
a singer.

Possessive Noun
Example 2:

S = Noun Phrase
The___ dog is mine.

Article Noun

S = Noun Phrase
 B/ DIRECT
OBJECT
Example 1:
- AThey
nounlike
or pronoun that receives the action of a verb
basketball.
- Shows the result of the action, answers the question
« What », « Whom
Noun » after an action verb.
Example 2:
The postman delivered the___letter.

S
Article Noun

Od
 C/ SUBJECT
COMPLEMENT (Cs)
Example 1:
- Cs is the adjective, noun, pronoun that follow
Our earth is a___planet.
a linking verb.
- It provides more information about the
Article Noun
subject. Example 2:
“Mun” is my cat’s name.
Cs

Cs
 D/ OBJECT COMPLEMENT
(Co)
- Co is a noun, pronoun, adjective which follows a direct
object to rename it or state what it has become.
- It is often used with verbs like: make, name, call, choose
elect, callExample:
and appoint,…
He found her weeping.

Co
 3.2
Minor syntactic
functions
 Prepositional complement
(Cprep):
They are defined as the word, phrase, or
clause that directly follows the preposition
and completes the meaning of the
prepositional phrase.

Note:
Prepositional complement is also called object
of preposition, complement of preposition.
 Examples:
The grammars book are on floor six.

Mothers often cry during the weddings of their

children.

My children ran into the house.

 Appositive
(App):
Appositives are nouns or noun phrases that follow
or come before a noun, and give more information
about it.

EX: My childhood friend, Melody, loved music.

Noun Appositives
EX: Mrs.John’s class, Honors Biology, is so hard!

Appositives
 Adverbial
(A):
Adverbials are words that we use to give more
information about a verb and often say how, where,
when or how often something happens or is done,
though they can also have their uses.
I saw him last week.

A
The man ordered lobster when he had money.

A
 Adjective complement
(Cadj):
An adjective complement is a group of words, a
phrase or a clause that comes next to an adjective
and complements, it complements an adjective by
giving more information about it.

We are excited about your wedding.

Adj Adjective complement

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