How many noun phrases are in the following sentence?

I have already eaten the cookie on the counter in the kitchen.

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How many noun phrases are in the following sentence?

I have already eaten the cookie on the counter in the kitchen.

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First, let's restate the task in our own words to focus the analysis: we need to identify how many noun phrases (NPs) appear in the sentence: 'I have already eaten the cookie on the counter in the kitchen.'
Option given: 4
Now, examine each potential NP in the sentence. Option 1 content asserts there are 4 noun phrases; we will verify.
Consider the subject: 'I' functions as a noun phrase (a pronoun acting as an NP).
Next, the verb phrase contains the object noun: 'the cookie'. This is clearly a noun phrase, headed by the determiner 'the'.
Then we have a prepositional phrase modifying the noun: 'on the counter'. Within this PP, 'the counter' is itself a noun phrase.
Finally, another prepositional phrase 'in the kitchen' contains its own noun phrase 'the kitchen'.
So, mapping these out, we have: NP1 = I, NP2 = the cookie, NP3 = the counter, NP4 = the kitchen.
There are no additional standalone nouns that function as noun phrases in this sentence, and demonstratives or other determiners do not introduce extra NPs beyond these four.
Therefore, the count of noun phrases is consistent with Option 1's value of 4.
If we considered whether any of these could be argued as not forming an NP (for example if 'the cookie on the counter in the kitchen' were treated as a single complex NP), that would reduce the count by collapsing parts of the noun phrase; however, standard analysis treats each noun head with its determiners as a separate NP unless it is embedded within a larger NP, which is not the case here. Hence the straightforward count remains four.
In summary, identifying each NP—I, the cookie, the counter, and the kitchen—yields four noun phrases, aligning with the provided option.

LINB18H3 S LEC01 Quiz#1

How many noun phrases are in the following sentence? I have already eaten the cookie on the counter in the kitchen.

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