English-2
Grade-9
Easy

Question

How many noun phrases are there in the following sentence?
“The old man rode his bicycle.”

  1. 2
  2. 1
  3. 3
  4. 0

hintHint:

A phrase is a group of two or more words headed by a noun that includes modifiers (e.g. the, a, of, them, with her).

The correct answer is: 2


    A noun phrase can function as a subject, an object or a complement within a sentence. 'The old man rode his bicycle', here 'the old man' is the noun phrase that used as subject and 'his bicycle' is the direct object that is used as noun phrase and the verb is 'rode'.

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