Rarely is this relationship formally accounted for. One way to account for this formally is to refer to the propositional structure of the noun phrase. In English numerals never occur as affixes ...

Narrator: Nice use of your nouns there. Beast, lake and boat. How about we expand those noun phrases? Expanded noun phrases tell you more about the noun. So, 'there's a beast' could be expanded to ...

Instead of an infinitive phrase, try using finite verbs or noun phrases. Circumlocutions are commonly used roundabout expressions that take several words to say what could be said more succinctly. We ...

Everything after “is” in that sentence is part of a larger noun phrase, all serving as the noun introduced by “is.” A clause introduced by “that” can sometimes be a noun. Think about ...

Chances are that this noun is called a mass noun. Mass nouns are nouns that, by their very nature, are plural. These are also called uncountable nouns or noncount nouns. The phrases “water,” “rice,” ...

Narrator: Nice use of your nouns there. Beast, lake and boat. How about we expand those noun phrases? Expanded noun phrases tell you more about the noun. So, 'there's a beast' could be expanded to ...