sentences:  Regardless of length, an NP functions as a syntactic unit.For example, the possessive enclitic can, in cases which do not lead to ambiguity, follow the entire noun phrase, as in "The President of India's wife", where the enclitic follows "India" and not "President".The class of determiners is used to specify the noun they precede in terms of definiteness, where "the" marks a definite noun and "a" or "an" an indefinite one.