Noun question

Hi,

Can someone please help me? In the sentence " I have a bucket of water.", what part of speech is 'bucket of water'? IS that together a compound noun? I know bucket alone is a noun. And so is water, so together as 'bucket of water', does that become a new noun.

No, I wouldn't call it a compound noun. I'd use that term for words like housewife, lawsuit,

So if it is not a comound noun, yet together 'bucket of water' calls out a thing, what part of speech is it? I mean, obviously 'bucket of water' is something, so there must be name for the part of speech in the sentence.

Hi,

So if it is not a comound noun, yet together 'bucket of water' calls out a thing, what part of speech is it? I mean, obviously 'bucket of water' is something, so there must be name for the part of speech in the sentence.



I'd say that what you call it depends on the grammar terms that you have been taught.



I'd call the whole thing a noun phrase. I

But isn't the noun phrase the modifiers with the noun. So if the sentence was " I had 3 buckets of water", 3 bucket of water would be the noun phrase. I thought maybe 'buckets of water' could be considered a countable noun or something like that.

Hi,

I have a bucket of water.

But isn't the noun phrase the modifiers with the noun. Yes.

So if the sentence was " I had 3 buckets of water", 3 buckets of water would be the noun phrase. Yes. That's why I said 'a bucket of water' was a noun phrase.

a bucket of water

one bucket of water

three buckets of water

AnonymousI know bucket alone is a noun. And so is water, so together as 'bucket of water', does that become a new noun.

No. "Part of speech" is a concept that applies only to one word at a time. A group of words cannot be labeled as a particular part of speech.

a - article
bucket - noun
of - preposition
water - noun

CJ