Noun Phrase

You may be familiar with nouns. A noun is a name of a person, place, thing, event or idea.

A noun phrase consists of a determiner and a noun or nouns after it.

Determiners include articles like a, an and the; or possessives like my, your, and their.

Words that describe the noun are also part of the noun phrase

Example

(My sister) likes kittens more than puppies.

(The big brown Labrador) caught my attention

Blank noun phrase banana