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PHRASESA small group of words standing together as a conceptual unit, typically forming a component of a clause. Different phrases make a clause or a sentence.
CLAUSE
A clause is a collection of words that has a subject that is actively doing a verb.
Examples of clause because she smiled at him when the saints go marching in
TYPES OF PHRASES NOUN PHRASES ADJECTIVE PHRASE VERB PHRASE ADVERB PHRASE PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE
NOUN
A word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things common noun, or to name a particular one of these proper noun.
NOUN
ADJECTIVE
An adjective is a kind of word (a part of speech) that modifies (describes) a noun.
VERB
The part of speech (orword class) that describes an action or occurrence or
indicates a state of being.
ADVERB
a word or phrase that modifies the meaning of an adjective, verb, or other adverb, expressing manner, place, time, or degree (e.g. gently, here, now, very ).
PREPOSITON
A word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause, as in ‘the man on the platform’.
DETERMINER
A modifying word that determines the kind of reference a noun or noun group has, for example a, the, every.
TYPES OF PHRASES NOUN PHRASES ADJECTIVE PHRASE VERB PHRASE ADVERB PHRASE PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE
DIFFERENT PHRASES MAKE A SENTENCE
OUR .UNCLE WILL COME NEXT WEEK.
OUR UNCLE WILL COME NEXT WEEK
NOUN PHRASE VERB PHRASE ADVERB PHRASE
NOUN PHRASE
A noun phrase has a noun, usually proceeded by a determiner or an adjective. A pronoun also is a noun phrase.
NOUN PHRASE
WE SAW AN OLD MAN.
WE SAW AN OLD MAN
PRONOUN DETERMINER ADJECTIVE NOUN
ADJECTIVE PHRASE
It contains an adjective, some times with an adverb of degree in front of it.
Example of adjective phrase
she is very beautiful. she is very
beautiful
(Adverb of degree) adjective
VERB PHRASE
It may be a single main verb or it may have auxiliaries too.
Examples of verb phrase
he came late
Main verbHe was playing. He was
playing
Auxiliary verb main verb
ADVERB PHRASE
It has an adverb some times with an adverb of degree in front of it.
EXAMPLES OF ADVERB PHRASE
GRANDFATHER VISITS US QUITE OFTEN.
GRANDFATHER VISITS US QUITE OFTEN
Adverb of degree Adverb
PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE
a prepositional phrase is the combination of a preposition and a noun phrase.
EXAMPLES OF PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE
WE MET AT THE BUS STOP.
WE MET AT THE BUS STOP
PREPOSITION NOUN PHRASE
THANK YOU