What is the pronoun in who owns the pink unicycle?
A noun phrase is a word or group of words based on a noun or pronoun (without a verb) that can function in a sentence as a subject, object of a verb or a preposition. A noun phrase can be one word or many words"Who owns the pink unicycle?" The noun phrase (in bold) is direct object of the verb 'owns'.A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun in a sentence."Who owns it?" The pronoun 'it' takes the place of the noun phrase as the direct object of the verb 'owns'.