ABSTRACT
A noun is a word that names a person, thing or concept (e.g. ‘John’, ‘woman’, ‘plate’, ‘hope’). A noun phrase is normally a phrase whose chief constituent is a noun. It may consist of a noun alone (e.g. ‘John’), or it may consist of a noun accompanied by various modifiers (article, adjective, etc., e.g. ‘a busy woman’, ‘some new plates’, ‘false hopes’). Sometimes a noun phrase consists of an adjective or pronoun (e.g. ‘me’, ‘someone’) rather than a noun. In Greek, a noun phrase may also consist of a phrase or clause preceded by the neuter definite article to.
