they take the words themselves to be primitive. For them, phrases must contain two or more words.

Components

A typical noun phrase consists of a noun (the head of the phrase) together with zero or more dependents of various types. (These dependents, since they modify a noun, are called adnominal.) The chief types of these dependents are:
*determiners, such as the, this, my, some, Jane's
*attributive adjectives,

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