Identifying Noun Phrases' Functions

The Justice Curriculum provides a sound educational foundation for the performance of professional activity within the justice arena. A sequence of courses is offered which will accomplish the following objectives: (1) establish a knowledge base about justice, (2) transmit a set of professional values and (3) facilitate the development of skills related to professional activity. Whether the setting is a police department, prosecutor's office, court or corrections agency, the curriculum starts with the assumption that the need for knowledge, values and skills is critical for the performance of professional activity.

Subjects can be single nouns, longer noun phrases, complicated complex noun phrases, pronouns, and other combinations of words that can be used as nouns.
Partners must trust each other.
Bad weather forces people to find alternative methods for traveling when automobiles cannot transport them.
Stagecoaches, carriages, Conestoga wagons loaded with freight, and droves of cattle and sheep traveled the road.


The complement describes or renames the subject. This structure is often used in definitions of terminology. Complements are often nouns, noun phrases, or adjectives.
My favorite teacher was Mrs. Hedayati.
A tabu is something we shouldn't do.


The word object is used for two different types of grammar: verbs and prepositions.

A transitive verb must have a direct object. Sometimes this direct object is just called the object of the verb.

Many French people adore horse meat.
I like working with people.

Some verbs can have another object, called the indirect object. The indirect object (me) "receives" the direct object (some medicine).
They gave me some medicine and put a cast on my arm.

Prepositions have objects. The combination of a preposition with its object is called a prepositional phrase. In the example sentences, the prepositions are with, in and to. Their objects are underlined.
with onions and savory herbs
in the stomach

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      Match the noun phrases with their functions in the sentences of the paragraph on the left.      
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