It is asking you to find the noun phrase.
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Tick the option in which the complete noun phrase is underlined.
We watched as the colourful fish in the tank were being fed.
We watched as the colourful fish in the tank were being fed.
We watched as the colourful fish in the tank were being fed.
We watched as the colourful fish in the tank were being fed.
- Read the question and read it again. What is it asking you to do?
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- First, find the noun.
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There are two nouns, fish and tank.
- Is information being given about fish or tank?
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The focus is fish.
- Check which words give information about fish. Don't forget the determiner.
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The colourful and in the tank.
- So, although the tank is a noun phrase itself, here it is part of the larger noun phrase about the fish.
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We watched as the colourful fish in the tank were being fed.
- Check your answer.