Noun Phrases for Place and Time

What are we learning today?

You will learn how to describe a place and a time with longer noun phrases.

Explanation

• A noun phrase is a noun with other words. It can be noun + noun, or adjective + noun.
• Place phrases: the community centre, a shopping centre, the theme park.
• Time phrases: on Saturday mornings, in the evening, until 1998.
• Put the opinion word first, then the size word: a beautiful big tower.
• Compound nouns stay together: theme park, ice rink.
• Some nouns are ideas, not things: help, life, friendship.

Examples

1. a quiet little bookshop near the old cathedral
2. We open the centre on Saturday mornings from 10.00 to 11.30.
3. It was called Akmola until 1998.

Remember!

• Use the right order: opinion, then size.
• Do not forget the small word before a time, like "on" or "in".

Check yourself

1. Make a noun phrase from "park" and "theme".
2. Which phrase gives time: "from 10.00 to 11.30" or "the ice rink"?