If I were to guess I'd say C. It sounds like the only logical solution.
Hey there!
We are going to find which sentence carries the strongest noun, this would mean that we would have to find a sentence that would contain these aspect's
. . . <span>♦Person
</span><span>♦Place
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<span>♦Or thing
Based on my understanding of your options, your best answer would be
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Jim knew his wife would like tulips)In this sentence, we are looking at the word
(tulips), which this would be a noun and in this, it would be considered and
(Thing).Your correct answer would be
. . . .
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Hope this helps
~Jurgen</span>
To understand if they are noun phrases or not, it is necessary to understand its definition:
A noun phrase is a word or a set of words including a noun, whose function in a sentence can be: to act as a subject, an object or a prepositional object.
Sentence A is not a noun phrase. it is a prepositional phrase functioning as the postmodifier of the noun phrase (a lovely bouquet).
Sentence B is a noun phrase functioning as the subject of the sentence.
Sentence C is a noun phrase functioning as a direct object.
Sentence D is not a noun phrase, as it is a dependent clause and has not nouns in it.
Answer:
When he left the stricken city, he had put Secretary of War Henry Knox in charge of the government, giving the former general clear instructions to report to him weekly concerning the spread of yellow fever. But after a few days' close contact with the pestilence, Knox found that his warrior instinct had abandoned him.