NOUN PHRASE


Meaning of NOUN PHRASE in English

[noun phrase] n, often cap N&P (1923): a phrase formed by a noun and all its modifiers and determiners; broadly: any syntactic element (as a clause, clitic, pronoun, or zero element) with a noun's function (as the subject of a verb or the object of a verb or preposition)--abbr. NP

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