Question

Pick out the noun phrase in the subject position
a) a fat snake coiled around the doctor's arm
b) the owner of the dogs made a lot of money from just one film

Answer 1

a) a fat snake

b) the owner of the dogs

Explanation:

subject is the part of the sentence that falls before the verb in the sentence

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Answer 2

The noun phrase in the sentences are highlighted below:

• A noun phrase is a group of two or more words containing a noun (name of a place, person, thing or feeling).
• It functions grammatically as a subject, prepositional object or object in a sentence just like a noun.

• In the given sentence "a fat snake coiled around the doctor's arm", " a fat snake" is the noun phrase. It contains the noun "snake" and is the subject of the sentence.
• In another sentence "the owner of the dogs made a lot of money from just one film", the noun phrase is "the owner of the dogs" and it functions as the subject in the sentence.
  

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