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2. Noun phrase - Wikipedia

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   A noun phrase – or NP or nominal (phrase) – is a phrase that usually has a noun or pronoun as its head, and has the same grammatical functions as a noun. [1] Noun phrases are very common cross-linguistically, and they may be the most frequently occurring phrase type. Noun phrases often function as verb subjects and objects, as predicative ...

3. English possessive - Wikipedia

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   English grammar. In English, possessive words or phrases exist for nouns and most pronouns, as well as some noun phrases. These can play the roles of determiners (also called possessive adjectives when corresponding to a pronoun) or of nouns. For nouns, noun phrases, and some pronouns, the possessive is generally formed with the suffix -'s, but ...

4. Noun - Wikipedia

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   A noun phrase (or NP) is a phrase usually headed by a common noun, a proper noun, or a pronoun. The head may be the only constituent, or it may be modified by determiners and adjectives . For example, "The dog sat near Ms Curtis and wagged its tail" contains three NPs: the dog (subject of the verbs sat and wagged ); Ms Curtis (complement of the ...

5. English grammar - Wikipedia

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   Noun phrases combined into a longer noun phrase, such as John, Eric, and Jill, the red coat or the blue one. When and is used, the resulting noun phrase is plural. A determiner does not need to be repeated with the individual elements: the cat, the dog, and the mouse and the cat, dog, and mouse are both correct.

6. Part of speech - Wikipedia

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   Part of speech. In grammar, a part of speech or part-of-speech (abbreviated as POS or PoS, also known as word class[1] or grammatical category[2][3]) is a category of words (or, more generally, of lexical items) that have similar grammatical properties. Words that are assigned to the same part of speech generally display similar syntactic ...

7. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog - Wikipedia

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   The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The phrase shown in metal moveable type, used in printing presses (image reversed for readability) " The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog " is an English-language pangram – a sentence that contains all the letters of the alphabet. The phrase is commonly used for touch-typing practice ...