noun phrase in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for noun phrase in the English»French Dictionary

I.phrase [Brit freɪz, Am freɪz] N

II.phrase [Brit freɪz, Am freɪz] VB trans

noun [Brit naʊn, Am naʊn] N

noun phrase in the PONS Dictionary

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Typical cases of weak crossover occur when the expression that has been crossed over is a possessor inside a noun phrase, e.g.:: a.?
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But the noun phrase a wise man is not a sentence, whereas some man is wise is a sentence.
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The underlined noun phrase, which contains a clause, is taken to have moved leftward in the second sentence, the blank marking its starting position.
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Due to the person marking nature of these affixes, the need for the presence of a core noun phrase in the same clause is negated.
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Possessors are also indicated in the noun phrase either by a nominal or a pronominal element.
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It indicates that the referent of the noun phrase is one unspecified member of a class.
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Within the noun phrase, the head noun is generally initial.
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The second element (noun phrase, adjective, or infinitive) is called a complement, which completes a clause that would not otherwise have the same meaning.
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The subject, if expressed as a noun phrase, normally precedes objects and other constituents.
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In a general sense, it is a noun phrase that obligatorily gets its meaning from another noun phrase in the sentence.
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