User:Birbal Kumawat

Noun Phrase is such a phrase that has generally a noun or a pronoun as the head word (the obligatory element) and it may have one or more modifiers ( such as adjective, determiner, PP, Rcl etc) as optional element. The subject part in all the following clauses signify a noun phrase : I. Boys are here. II. The boys are here. III. All the boys are here. IV. All the good boys are here. V. All the good boys from rural India are here. VI. All the good boys from rural India who are much ambitious are here. The subject part of all these clauses are noun phrases and "boys" is the head word in all these NPs. All other words, PP and the Rcl are the modifiers in the concerned noun phrase.

In the above clauses noun phrase has been given only for convenience . As a general rule NP can do the following functions within the clause and out of the clause.:

I. Subject

     As it has been given above. 

II. Subject Complement

      She is a teacher. 

III. Object Complement

      She made me a teacher. 

IV. Direct Object

      He helped me. 

V. Indirect object

       She gave me a book. 

VI. Prepositional complement

       He lives in this house. 

VII. Post -modifier in Noun Phrase

        Ravi, my brother,  is a good boy.