phrases in english
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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.
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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
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TYPES OF PHRASES NOUN PHRASES ADJECTIVE PHRASE VERB PHRASE ADVERB PHRASE PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE
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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.
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NOUN
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ADJECTIVE
An adjective is a kind of word (a part of speech) that modifies (describes) a noun.
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VERB
The part of speech (orword class) that describes an action or occurrence or
indicates a state of being.
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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 ).
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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’.
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DETERMINER
A modifying word that determines the kind of reference a noun or noun group has, for example a, the, every.
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TYPES OF PHRASES NOUN PHRASES ADJECTIVE PHRASE VERB PHRASE ADVERB PHRASE PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE
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DIFFERENT PHRASES MAKE A SENTENCE
OUR .UNCLE WILL COME NEXT WEEK.
OUR UNCLE WILL COME NEXT WEEK
NOUN PHRASE VERB PHRASE ADVERB PHRASE
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NOUN PHRASE
A noun phrase has a noun, usually proceeded by a determiner or an adjective. A pronoun also is a noun phrase.
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NOUN PHRASE
WE SAW AN OLD MAN.
WE SAW AN OLD MAN
PRONOUN DETERMINER ADJECTIVE NOUN
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ADJECTIVE PHRASE
It contains an adjective, some times with an adverb of degree in front of it.
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Example of adjective phrase
she is very beautiful. she is very
beautiful
(Adverb of degree) adjective
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VERB PHRASE
It may be a single main verb or it may have auxiliaries too.
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Examples of verb phrase
he came late
Main verbHe was playing. He was
playing
Auxiliary verb main verb
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ADVERB PHRASE
It has an adverb some times with an adverb of degree in front of it.
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EXAMPLES OF ADVERB PHRASE
GRANDFATHER VISITS US QUITE OFTEN.
GRANDFATHER VISITS US QUITE OFTEN
Adverb of degree Adverb
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PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE
a prepositional phrase is the combination of a preposition and a noun phrase.
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EXAMPLES OF PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE
WE MET AT THE BUS STOP.
WE MET AT THE BUS STOP
PREPOSITION NOUN PHRASE
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