1 The tenderest of steak. Not a sentence, but OK as a noun phrase. 2 She made dinner in the time that I was gone. OK. 3 You've put me in a delicate situation. OK. 4 My hair is itching because of the helmet. OK. (head, actually, so this is a

Here is my take: Recognizing the immediate danger, he ordered everyone to evacuate the building. - participle phrase usge. Recognize is a transitive verb, but I've used it without an object and as a gerund. Is that acceptable? Or,

It is the object of the verb. Verb objects are nouns, noun phrases or noun clauses. Ergo, it is a gerund (an '-ing' verb form acting as a noun.) (This conversation started HERE .)

I think the original post was referring to possessives in general, not just 'him'. Trad grams called my, your, his/her/its, our, your, their possessive adjectives . However, in many modern grammars they came to be called

Good. Now: what can I tell you?-- It has no real grammar, since it is just a noun phrase with its appositive. All I can say is that the adjective order is acceptable.

then i think i saw a boy tossing a coin a bou tossing a coin is a noun phrase so..tossing a coin is right

Yeah! Your are right. Afte I chewed on it a little more, it's not a noun phrase. Thanks,

No. Sorry. I think you've got the wrong end of the stick as far as noun phrases are concerned. In your example, the depending phrase is adverbial. The noun phrase version has to be a subject or object of some kind. Noun phrases underlined.

Which is the compound noun? There are no compound nouns. The compound noun phrases are underlined below. There is a cat and a dog in the kitchen. There are a cat and a dog in the kitchen. There is a cat and some dogs in the kitchen. There are a

It would seem to me that it has the characteristics of all 3 It would depend on context, though the use of "depending on location" is more difficult (for me) to contextualize (without some modification) as a noun phrase. CJ