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a word group with a noun or pronoun as its head. The noun phrase can occur in different parts of the sentence:
in writing, work is divided into units of thought, and each of these units is described as a...
a figure of speech in which one thing is said and another is to be understood; alternatively,...
two successive lines in a poem which have end-rhyme.
a moving or still image in the photograph taken by the camera. See close-up, extreme close-up,...
the names of terms we use to talk about language, e.g. phrase, verb, figure of speech.