How does a noun phrase differ from a noun?
Nouns denote persons, places, things, or ideas. Noun phrases contain one or more nouns. Within a sentence, noun phrases can be subjects, objects, or complements:
Nouns Noun Phrasesstudies Formal research studies attributes identified ten attributes of highly people adaptable people. child, family The youngest child in the family boy, Bill was a boy named Bill.
Like nouns, noun phrases can also be the objects of prepositions:
for the complex experimental procedure about the remaining six questions and answers of the sequential program elements