Nouns and Noun Phrases with the Definite Articles

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

Lesson details

Class: SS1
Subject: English Language
Theme: English Grammar - Structural Patterns
Duration: 30:12

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.

Nouns and Noun Phrases with the Definite Articles

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