The words the my most and that are determiners Determiners include articles numbers demonstratives etc New and yellow are modifiers because they tell us more about the shoes and the cheese The words cow lions shoes cheese and sheep are nouns In each of the sentences the underlined groups of words are known as noun phrases They have a noun as the headword A phrase then is a group of words without a subject or verb and they dont make sense on their own Noun Phrases A phrase is group of words that does not make sense on its own A noun phrase is a group of words that does the work of a noun in a sentence The following are examples of noun phrases