Noun Phrase

E1. Noun Phrase is just a noun or a pronoun. (e.g. People like to have money.)

E2. Determiner and a noun (e.g. Our friends have bought a house in the village.)

E3. with an adjective (e.g. Our closest friends have just bought a new house in the village.)

E4. Sometimes the noun phrase begins with a quantifier (e.g. All those children go to school here.)

E5. Quantifiers come before determiners, but numbers come after determiners. (e.g. My four children go to school here. (All my children go to school here.))

E6. Noun Phrase is built up as follows;
a. Noun (people, money)
b. Determiner + noun (the village, a house, our friends, those houses)
c. Quantifier + noun (some people; a lot of money)
d. Determiner + adjective + noun (our closest friends; a new house)
e. Quantifier + determiner + noun (all those children)
f. Quantifier + determiner + adjective + noun (both of my younger brothers)

E7. The Noun Phrase can be quite complicated (e.g. a loaf of nice fresh brown bread, the eight-year-old boy who attempted to rob a sweet shop with a pistol.)

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Today's Idiom;

Nickel to dime someone to death: to make numerous small monetary charges that add up to big and serious impact.
Example: Government is nickel and dime you to death.

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