Chapter 4: Noun phrases- Grammar 1

	Yes, all of the nouns stand alone in the sentence above. Advertisement titles are frequently presented so that the most important information stands out and catches the eye. The body of the ad gives more specific information. Of course, this often comes at the cost of complicating the sentence structure. Look at the following sentence:
	Eine große bekannte Bank sucht einen kompetenten, interessierten Hochschulabsolventen mit einem exzellenten Hochschulabschluss.
	If you want to understand sentence structure, which in turn helps you to understand the content, start by looking for the nouns. Imagine that you've printed out the text and marked the nouns with a colored pen:

The next step would be to look for determiners.

You already know the definite and indefinite articles (you'll be introduced to other determiners in Chapter 11).

Would you be able to find the three articles in this sentence?

Here we show you to which noun the articles refer:

Noun phrase
	A noun rarely stands alone in a sentence. That is, usually at least one other word in the sentence is related to the noun, most often a determiner like the definite or indefinite article, found to the left and preceding the noun. All of the words in a sentence related to a given noun form a "noun phrase." The most simple form is a pronoun, a single noun, or a noun with an article:

	In Chapter 3, Workout 2, you read the following title:
	Bank sucht Hochschulabsolventen mit Hochschulabschluss
	Which nouns do you see in this sentence?
	That's easy: Bank, Hochschulabsolventen, and Hochschulabschluss.