Usually when you want to join a word to a phrase, the word you are adding will be the head of the phrase, meaning that whatever part of speech it is, the phrase will be named after that part of speech. So if we join a noun to an adjective phrase, we will make a noun phrase. And if we join a verb to a noun phrase, we will make a verb phrase.
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Co-ordinate Phrases
Co-ordinate phrases are rare phrases that do appear in English. You will have used them already, when you say things like ‘fish and chips’, ‘Max and Ben’, and pretty much any situation where you join two nouns together using the conjunction ‘and’. So how do we deal with these?