A noun phrase is formed by a noun or pronoun, this one receives the name of the head, and any dependent words before or after the head. Dependent words are the ones that give specific details about the head. An example of a noun phrase can be: <em>a quantifier + a determiner + an adjective + a noun.</em> However, there are some others that are longer and with more dependent words.
Following this concept the two noun phrases in the text are:
<em>1. Senior citizens and others who need medical assistance </em>
<em>2. The subset of the US population with Medicare</em>
B, the men of the town argue over who may be cast as a statue.
Adjective because the clause in parenthesis modifies the word picture.
Answer:
(B) He called colonialism " a flabby devil".
Explanation:
Charles Marlow is the protagonist of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness - who visited the Congo Free States and saw the exploitation of the African natives for the acquisition of ivory. As he arrived, one of his pointed remarks of colonialism, as he saw how the Company's outpost was in a horrendous state, was how the greed of colonialism was like: "the labby, pretending, weak-eyed devil of a rapacious and pitiless folly.”
