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There's words like "house" or "automobile" and phrases like "white as snow" or "walked to the store". But what about "lousy drivers" and "beautiful women"? What are they called?

2007-11-17 08:36:30 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference Words & Wordplay

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Yes, they're noun phrases. "Walked to the store" is a verb phrase and "white as snow" is an adjective phrase.

2007-11-17 08:46:28 · answer #1 · answered by Goddess of Grammar 7 · 1 0

"walked to the store" is not a phrase, "to the store" is a phrase - it begins with a preposition and ends with a noun. "lousy drivers" and "beautiful women" are simply 2 nouns ("drivers" and "women") modified by 2 adjectives ("lousy" and "beautiful").

2007-11-17 19:29:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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