Survey of English Grammar Wiki: Week 4

Nouns and Noun phrases

• Semantic test:

Nouns name persons, things or places

• morphological test:

Nouns can combine with a plural morpheme (-(e)s)

• syntactic test

Nouns can occur with the possessive 's, i.e. in the environment:

• • __ 's
  • Nouns can occur between a determiner and a verb, i.e. in the environment: Det __ V

Exercises on Nouns and NPs

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