Phrase is a group of related words that is used as a single part of speech and doesnot contain a verb and its subject.
Types of Phrases
• The Prepositional Phrase is a group of words that begins with preposition and usually ends with a noun or pronoun.
e.g During the night, the horse ran off
• The Adjective Phrase is a prepositional phrase that modifies a noun or prounoun.
E.g the beacon from the lighthouse stayed on all night
• The Adverb Phrase when prepositional phrase is used as an adverb to modify a verb, adj, adv, it is called adverb phrase.
E.g the snow fell like feathers
• The Noun Phrase a noun phrase consist of a noun or pronoun which is called the head and any dependent words before or after the head. Dependent words give spesific information about the head. Noun Phrase can begins with determiner ( A, The, My, His, Some etc)
E.g A good man
Verbal is a word that is formed from verb but it is used in a sentence as a noun, an adjective, or an adverb. There are three kinds of verbal : the participle, the gerund, and the infinitive.
The participle : is a verb vorm that can used as an adj. There are two kinds of participles. Present and past. E.g the toy was broken
▷ The participle phrase : is a group of related words that contains a participle and acts as an adjective. E.g seeing itself in the mirror
▷ Gerund Phrases : includes the gerund and all the words realated to gerund. E.g : shouting at people
▷ The invinitive phrase :consist of an infinitive together with its complements and modifiers. E.g to lift those weights need a lot of strength
▷ Appositive phrase is made up of an appositive (noun or pronoun that explains rge noun or pronoun its follows) and its modifiers. E.g Mrs. Collins, my english teacher, went to scoll with my mother.
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