NP- Noun Phrase

Constituents of a Noun Phrase

 NP (Determiner)+N

1. Articles-a, an & the

2.Possessive Adjectives-
my, our, your, his, her, its & their
3. Demonstrative adjectives:
This, that, these, those
4. wh-words in questions
Whose, which, how many, how much
 NP (Determiner)+N

The table
A book----- (NP) a, an, the
det Noun
Determiner article
ticle

det Noun Article

article
The table
A book
an elephant
det noun
article elephant
(an)
 Determiner Possessive Adjective
My father
my father
Possessive adj noun

our school, your pen, his book,

Her bangles, its legs, their office.

 Determiner Demonstrative adjective
That book is a novel
That book
that book
Demonstrative adj noun
This pen, these boys,
those students
Determiner Wh-word

Whose pen is it?

Whose pen
whose pen
demonstrative noun
adjective
Which book, how much money, how many chairs.
NP (Determiner)+(Ordinal)+(cardinal)+N

The first prize

Det ordinal noun

the first prize

the first three prizes

Det ordinal Cardinal noun
the first three prizes
 NP (Determiner)+(Ordinal)+(cardinal)+(Adjective Phrase)+N

The first three very interesting novels

NP
Det ordinal cardinal Adj Ph Noun
The first three intensifier adj novels
very interesting
 Adjectival phrase with more than one
adjective
The first three extremely fashionable attractive beautiful rich ladies/ in the street.
NP

Det Ordinal Cardinal Adjective phrase Noun

The first three intensifier adjective ladies

extremely fashionable attractive beautiful rich
 NP Classifier +N

Stone building

noun classifier

stone building

Glass house, Modern society, Indo -tibetan language

One man commission, touch me not flower, human beings,
 NP (Quantifier)/ +(Det)+(ord)+(card)+(AdjP) +
(classifier)+N

Quantifier indicates quantity. It precedes determiner(article) .

One of the books
Many of the ……….
Most of the …………..
Some of the……………….
Any of the ………………..
Several of -----------------
None of the……………………….
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