phrases in english

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

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