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Does the gerund phrase belong to the noun phrase?
Does the participial phrase belong to the noun phrase?

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Even if a gerund is a form derived from a verb that function as a noun, a gerund phrase is considered different from a noun phrase:

  • When the phrase start with a gerund that works as noun, the phrase is a gerund phrase
  • When the head word of the phrase is a noun or an indefinite pronoun, the phrase is a noun phrase

A participial phrase is a verb phrase based on a participle and having the function of a participle.

The horse trotting up to the fence hopes that you have an apple or carrot.

Eaten by mosquitoes, we wished that we had made hotel, not campsite, reservations.

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    In traditional grammar, gerunds are 'nominals' and 'gerund phrase' is a sub-category of 'noun phrase'. And in orthodox phrase-structure grammars 'noun phrase' (written N′ and pronounced 'en-bar') is not the same thing as 'Noun Phrase' (written NP and pronounced 'en-pee').
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    Jun 13, 2013 at 12:40

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