Sunday, March 20, 2011

3. Noun Phrases

Noun phrase အျဖစ္နဲ႔ အမ်ားအားျဖင့္ noun တစ္ခု၊ သို႔မဟုတ္ pronoun တစ္ခုသာ သံုးေလ့ရွိတယ္။

People like to have money.

I am tired.

It is getting late.

Determiner နဲ႔ noun တြဲသံုးတာလဲ ရွိတယ္။

Our friends have bought a house in the village.

Those houses are very expensive.

Adjective လဲ ပါေကာင္းပါႏုိင္တယ္။

Our closest friends have just bought a new house in the village.

ရံခါ noun phrase ကုိ qualifier နဲ႔ စေလ့ရွိတယ္။

All those children go to school here.

Both of my younger brothers are married.

Some people spend a lot of money.

Numbers

Qualifiers ေတြကို determiners ေတြရဲ႕ ေရွ႕မွာ ထားရတယ္၊ သို႔ေသာ္ numbers ေတြကုိေတာ့ determiners ေတြရဲ႕ ေနာက္မွာ ထားရတယ္။

My four children go to school here. (All my children go to school here).

Those two suitcases are mine. (Both those suitcases are mine).

ထုိ႔ေၾကာင့္ noun phrases ေတြကို ေအာက္ပါနည္းအတုိင္း ဖြဲ႔စည္းလုိက္ပါ။

Noun: people; money

Determiner + noun: the village; a house; our friends; those houses

Qualifier + noun: some people; a lot of money

Determiner + adjective + noun: our closest friends; a new house

Qualifier + determiner + noun: all those children

Qualifier + determiner + adjective + noun: both of my younger brothers

Noun phrases ေတြဟာ ေတာ္ေတာ္ ဆန္းၾကယ္တယ္။ ႐ႈပ္ေထြးစြာလဲ ေတြ႕ရတတ္တယ္။

A lot of nice fresh brown bread

The eight-year-old boy who attempted to rob a sweet shop with a pistol

That attractive young woman in the blue dress sitting over there in the corner

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