A noun phrase can consist of two or more nouns.
A compound noun can consist of two or more nouns.
A noun phrase is any word or group of words based on a noun or pronoun (without a verb) that can function in a sentence as a subject, object of a verb or a preposition. A noun phrase can be one word or many words. A noun phrase may also contain articles, adjectives, prepositions, and conjunctions.
Examples: the board meeting, my mother's homemade cookies, a symposium on translating dead languages, etc.
A noun phrase may be a collective noun phrase. A collective noun is a word used to group people or things taken together as one whole in a descriptive way.
Examples: a crowd of people, a herd of cattle, a bushel of apples, etc.
A noun phrase may be a noun used to describe another noun. The noun used to describe another noun is called an attributive noun or a noun adjunct.
Examples: vinaigrette dressing, glass beads, vacation destination, etc.
A compound noun is a word made of two or more individual words that merge to form a noun with a meaning of its own.
Examples: bus stop, mother-in-law, bathtub ring, etc.
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Two forms of nouns are:singular, a word for one person, place, or thing.plural, a word for two or more people, places, or things.
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Two kinds of nouns are common or proper, singular or plural.
Nouns made up of more than one word are called compound nouns, e.g. Son-in-law Attourney-General Prime Minister
The two numbers of nouns are singular and plural.