NOUN PHRASE


Meaning of NOUN PHRASE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]

Usage: often capitalized N&P

Date: 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) — abbreviation NP

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