A noun phrase is either a pronoun or any group of words that can be replaced by a pronoun. For example, 'they', 'cars', and 'the cars' are noun phrases, but 'car' is just a noun, as you can see in these sentences (in which the noun phrases are all in bold)
Q: Do you like cars?
A: Yes, I like them.
Q: Do you like the cars over there?
A: Yes, they are nice.
Q: Do you like the car I bought last week?
A: Yes, I like it. (Note: 'It' refers to 'the car', not 'car')
Q: Do you like cars?
A: Yes, I like them.
Q: Do you like the cars over there?
A: Yes, they are nice.
Q: Do you like the car I bought last week?
A: Yes, I like it. (Note: 'It' refers to 'the car', not 'car')
- "The very tall education consultant with the roving eye"
The structure of this noun phrase contains three sections:
- Pre-modification
- The =determiner
- very =adverb (intensifying)
- tall = adjective
- education = pre-modifying noun
- Head noun
- consultant
- Post-modification
- with the roving eye = preposition phrase
Reference: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/noun-phrase
