Question

Identify the noun phrase in the sentence-
There would always be a significant amount of change when the incredibility meticulous son of the owner would decide to pay a visit to the office.
a) There would always be, meticulous son of the owner.
b) A visit to the office. There would always be.
c) A significant amount of change, the incredibly meticulous son of the owner.
d) When the incredibly meticulous son, a visit to the office.

Answer 1

Hint: Read the given sentence carefully. Try to find out the subject, predicate, and object of the given sentence, with its meaning.

Complete answer:
 A noun phrase is a word or group of words containing a noun and functioning in a sentence as subject, object, or prepositional object. In the given question, we have to find out the correct noun phrase from the given sentence. A noun phrase, or nominal (phrase), is a phrase that has a noun (or indefinite pronoun) as its head or performs the same grammatical function as a noun. Noun phrases often function as verb subjects and objects, as predicate expressions, and as the complements of prepositions.
Now, let us examine all the given options to find out the correct option :
Option ‘a’ – it is an incorrect option as it doesn’t follow the rules of a phrasal noun. The first half of this option is incorrect and not appropriate.
Option ‘b’ – it is also an incorrect option as a noun phrase has to be the one replacing a noun. So, we will eliminate this option.
Option ‘c’ – it is the correct answer as it has ‘significant’ as a modifier which is modifying the noun ‘change’ and ‘incredibly meticulous’ as a modifier which is modifying the noun ‘son of the owner’.
Option ‘d’ – it is an incorrect option and cannot be used as a phrasal noun as the second half of the sentence doesn’t fulfill the needs of a noun phrase. Hence, option ‘c’ is the correct option.

Note:
A noun is the name of a person, place, or thing. A noun phrase must have a noun in it. The only other words in a noun phrase will be modifiers, such as articles, adjectives, and prepositional phrases.