Editing Noun phrase (section)

==Identification==
Some examples of noun phrases are underlined in the sentences below. The head noun appears in bold. 
::<u>This election-year's '''politics'''</u> are annoying for <u>many '''people'''</u>.
::<u>Almost every '''sentence'''</u> contains <u>at least one noun '''phrase'''</u>.[[Image:Arkansas Black apples.jpg|thumb|250px|right|''Those five beautiful shiny Arkansas Black apples'' is a noun phrase of which ''apples'' is the [[Head (linguistics)|head]]. To test, a single pronoun can replace the whole noun phrase, as in "''They'' look delicious".]]
::<u>Current economic '''weakness'''</u> may be <u>a '''result''' of high</u> <u>energy prices</u>.

Noun phrases can be identified by the possibility of pronoun substitution, as is illustrated in the examples below.

::a. <u>This '''sentence'''</u> contains <u>two noun '''phrases'''</u>.  
::b. '''It''' contains '''them'''.
::a. <u>The subject noun '''phrase''' that is present in this sentence</u> is long.  
::b. '''It''' is long.
::a. <u>Noun '''phrases'''</u> can be embedded in <u>other noun '''phrases'''</u>.  
::b. '''They''' can be embedded in '''them'''.

A string of words that can be replaced by a single pronoun without rendering the sentence grammatically unacceptable is a noun phrase. As to whether the string must contain at least two words, see the following section.