mailing list grammar forum Five Quick Questions 0 0 1 not attempted Select the noun: A. curiosity B. curiously C. thoughtful 2 not attempted Select the example of an idiom: A. He's all bark and no bite. B. He shouts a lot but never acts. ...
Year 5/6 Expanded Noun Phrases explains how to use expanded noun phrases to improve descriptive writing. The resource contains a range of activities such as: - Definitions and examples of noun phrases, simple expanded noun phrases and complex expanded noun phrases - An explanation, with examples...
A noun phrase is a group of words that act in the same way as a noun. Can you rewrite these sentences using expanded noun phrases containing adjectives, or to tell readers something about place or time? Then rewrite these sentences using expanded noun phrases that use superlatives, or that ...
Teachers may use some of the following methods to teach noun phrases and prepositional phrases: Encourage children to use prepositional phrases at the start of these sentences, for example by giving them a list of sentence openers that are all prepositional phrases (In the morning..., Beside the...
In general, there are two types of noun phrases (NP): Base Noun Phrase (BNP), and Maximal-Length Noun Phrase (MNP). MNP identification can largely reduce the complexity of full parsing, help analyze the general structure of complex sentences, and provide important clues for detecting main pre...