Overview
Identify a noun and a noun phrase Explain what makes for a noun phrase-attaching the definite article. Build up noun phrases. Explain the exception in the use of ‘the’ as definite article with nouns.] identify the two positions of noun phrases in sentences a)as subject b)as object of the sentence
What you'll learn
- Revision of noun
- The definite article and its function with the noun
- Exception to the use of indefinite article with the noun.
- Note: Use passages and sentence to revise nouns and to identify noun phrases. Exceptions to the use of definite article with noun include:
- a. Same diseases e.g. flu, malaria. Chicken pox, small pox, cancer, diarrhea.
- b. Names of take that retain the title e.g. lake chad, not the Lake Chad.
- c. Mountains e.g. Mt.Everest or the Everest.
- d. Institutions e.g. st.Gregroy
- e. Countries e.g. Ghana, not the Ghana. Nigeria, not the Nigeria but the united kingdom.