Noun Phrase (definition)
From Scottish Gaelic Grammar Wiki
A syntactic element which is headed my a noun or a pronoun. In a noun phrase the noun can be modified by an article/determiner or an adjective. For example, in English. “The Man” is a noun phrase, in which "the" is a determiner which modifies "man"- a noun that is the head of the noun phrase.
See Also
External Links
- http://languagestudy.suite101.com/article.cfm/english_nouns_and_noun_phrases
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_phrase
- http://www.criticalreading.com/noun_phrase.htm
- An Coitcheann page on Nouns: http://wikademy.wikispaces.com/Nouns
