a word group with a noun or pronoun as its head. The noun phrase can occur in different parts of the sentence:

• as the subject, e.g. To be acknowledged is all I want.
• as the object, e.g. I want to go home.
• as a complement, e.g. She is the best player.
• as an apposition (alongside another element in the sentence to define it), e.g. Mr Brown, the butcher, is here.