Nouns are extremely important words in a sentence. Today EnglishTopVN will help you learn the position of nouns in sentences and exercises about the position of nouns to help you consolidate your knowledge.
➢ There is always a noun after the article. Articles include: a, an, the.
✎ NOTE: This noun may not necessarily stand immediately after the article but may stand a few words away.
In between the article and the noun will be an adjective to modify that noun.
For example:
I met a beautiful girl at the bus stop.
➢ There is always a noun after the possessive word. Possessive words include: my, your, his, her, its, our, their, genitive form.
✎ NOTE: This noun may not necessarily come immediately after the possessive adjective, but may come a few words away.
➢ Between the possessive adjective and the noun will be the adjective that modifies the noun.
This is my new computer.
➢ After determiners such as this, that, these, those, each, every, both, no, some, any, few, a few, little, a little, ...there is always a noun.
✎ NOTE: This noun may not need to stand immediately after the determiner but can stand a few words away.
➢ In between the determiner and the noun will be an adjective to modify the noun.
It is important to do some research.
However, we should also be careful because there are pronouns that have the same form as determiners, but their grammatical functions are different.
Specifically, after the determiner, there must be a noun phrase, and the pronoun must always stand alone, there must not be a noun phrase after the pronoun: