English-2
Grade-7
Easy

Question

Find the number of noun phrases in the following sentence.
“The old man rode his bicycle.”

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

hintHint:

A noun phrase is a word or group of words in a sentence that acts like a noun. Locate the nouns in the sentence to find out the number of noun phrases.

The correct answer is: 2


    In the given sentence, there are two nouns- "man" and "bicycle". Adding the modifiers, we get two noun phrases from the sentence- "The old man" and "his bicycle". Thus the correct answer is option a.

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