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Re: Made of Bricks.....

"The house is made of bricks".

Yes, he should underline "bricks" as a noun. The crucial point is that "made of bricks" is not an adjective; it's an adjective phrase that happens to contain the noun "bricks" (and the preposition "of"). "Bricks" is a noun functioning as object complement of the preposition "of"; it is not an adjective.

The individual words in a phrase are analysed according to their basic word category (part of speech). For example, the word "boys" is a noun, and when it occurs in an adverb phrase like "happily for the boys", it still retains its status as a noun; it doesn't suddenly become an adverb just because it's part of a larger expression that happens to be an adverb phrase.

So, whatever the phrase that "bricks" occurs in, it will always belong in the category 'noun'.


Does that help?

PaulM