NOUN PHRASE AND COLLECTIVE NOUN

NOUN PHRASE

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')

The structure of noun phrase
The structure of this noun phrase contains three sections:

1. Pre-modification
2. The =determiner
3. very =adverb (intensifying)
4. tall = adjective
5. education = pre-modifying noun
6. Head noun
7. consultant
8. Post-modification
9. with the roving eye = preposition phrase

1.     Article + Noun

a) Indifinite Article + Noun

example : a girl                an apple                     a university

b) Difinite Article + Noun

example : the house                the book         the boys           the pens

2. Demonstrative Adjective   + Noun

Example:

 This song                      That poem                   those disasters
                        That stranger                These tragedies           this liquid

3.  Possessesive Adjective +    Noun dan Possessive noun + noun

Example : Her computers                   your ideas                    Toni’s pen

4. Numerals

Example :

Two women (=dua orang wanita)

Four members (=empat orang anggota)

Three books (=tiga buku)

5. Quantifier + noun

Example :

 some brothers     much money          many pencils

COLLECTIVE NOUN

 A collective noun is the name of a number (or collection) of people or things taken together and spoken of as one whole. For example, in the phrase "a pride of lions", pride is a collective noun.

Most collective nouns encountered in everyday speech, such as "group", are mundane and are not specific to one kind of constituent object. For example, the terms "group of people", "group of dogs", and "group of ideas" are all correct uses. Others, especially words belonging to the large subset of collective nouns known as terms of venery (words for groups of animals), are specific to one kind of constituent object. For example, "pride" as a term of venery refers to lions, but not to dogs or cows.

Collective nouns should not be confused with mass nouns, or with the collective grammatical number.

 Example :

The crowd was orderly.- The crowd were clapping, yelling and cheering.

(groups of people): 

crowd of shoppers, company of actors, class of schoolchildren, gang of thieves, panel of judges, platoon of soldiers.

(groups of animal):

 herd of cattle, flock of birds, drove of sheep, gaggle of geese, pack of wolves, pride of lions, pod of dolphins, school of fish, litter of puppies, troop of monkeys, brood of chickens, swarm of bees.