Noun Phrase

Often a noun phrase is just a noun or a pronoun:

People like to have money.
I am tired.

determiners:
Those houses are very expensive.

quantifiers:
I've lived in a lot of houses.

numbers:
My brother owns two houses.

adjectives:
I love old houses.

These parts of the noun phrase are called premodifiers because they go before the noun.

We use premodifiers in this order:

determiners and quantifiers → numbers → adjectives → nouns

For example:

Other parts of a noun phrase go after the noun.
These are called postmodifiers.

Postmodifiers can be:

prepositional phrases:

a man with a gun
the boy in the blue shirt
the house on the corner

–ing phrases:

the man standing over there
the boy talking to Angela

relative clauses:

the man we met yesterday
the house that Jack built
the woman who discovered radium
an eight-year-old boy who attempted to rob a sweet shop

that clauses. These are very common after nouns like idea, fact, belief, suggestion:

He's still very fit, in spite of the fact that he's over eighty.
She got the idea that people didn't like her.
There was a suggestion that the children should be sent home.

to infinitives:

I've got no decent shoes to wear.

These are very common after indefinite pronouns and adverbs:

You should take something to read.
I need somewhere to sleep.

There may be more than one postmodifier:

an eight-year old boy with a gun who tried to rob a sweet shop
that girl over there in a green dress drinking a Coke