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Phrases
What is a phrase?
What phrases would I prefer?
What is a phrase and types of phrase?
What is an adverb phrase?
What is an adverb clause?
What is an adjective phrase?
What is an adjective clause?
What is a noun phrase?
What is a noun clause?
What is a prepositional phrase?
What is a verb phrase?
What is an adpositional phrase?
What is a pronominal?
How do you identify a phrase in a sentence?
What is an Adpositional phrase?
What is the phrase in English grammar?
What is an example of a phrase?
What is difference between clause and phrase?
What are examples of prepositional phrases?
What is a phrase verb?
What is a phrase for children?
Can a phrase be a sentence?
What are the three types of phrases?
What is a noun phrase with examples?
What is a noun or noun phrase?
What is an example of a verb phrase?
What is a verbal phrase examples?
What is the verb in a sentence?
What is an example of a verbal?
What is a verbal phrase in math?
What is a phrasal verb give two examples?
What is the difference between an idiom and a phrasal verb?
What are some examples of phrasal verbs?
What is a phrasal verb in English grammar?
What is a phrasal preposition?
What is a verb preposition?
What is a phrase?
A phrase is two or more words that do not contain the subject-verb pair necessary to form a clause.
A group of two or more grammatically linked words that do not have subject and predicate is a phrase.
Phrases act like parts of speech inside clauses.
A phrase is not a sentence because it is not a complete idea with a subject and a predicate.
A phrase is a syntactic structure that consists of more than one word but lacks the subject-predicate organization of a clause.

Exercise

A word that shows the relation of a noun or pronoun to some other word in the sentence and its accompanying noun, noun equivalent, or pronoun. Ex: on the table
To + a verb and its modifiers. Ex: To eat quickly
Second noun placed beside the first noun to explain it more fully and its modifiers. Ex: Mr. Spezia, the English teacher down the hall, ate a pizza.
Verb used as an adjective and its modifiers. Ex: The girl, driving the red car, caused the accident.
Verb used as a noun and its modifiers. Ex: Wrapping Christmas presents is tedious.
Write an example of a sentence using a prepositional phrase:
Write an example of a sentence using an infinitive phrase:
Write an example of a sentence using an appositive phrase:
Write an example of a sentence using a participial phrase:
Write an example of a sentence using a gerund phrase:

Types of phrases
  1. Absolute Phrases

  2. Adjective Phrase

  3. Adverb Phrase

  4. Appositive Phrase

  5. Gerund Phrase

  6. Infinitive Phrase

  7. Noun Phrase

  8. Participial Phrase

  9. Phrasal Verb

  10. Prepositional Phrase

  11. Verb Phrase

  12. Verbals


What phrases would I prefer?
Heads and dependents

Most phrases have an important word defining the type and linguistic features of the phrase. This word is the head of the phrase and gives its name to the phrase category. The heads in the following phrases are in bold:

  1. too slowly - Adverb phrase (AdvP)
    Adverb clause and phrase complex declarative sentence
    After she eats, I will be investigating this case.
    After eating, I will be investigating this case.

  2. very happy - Adjective phrase (AP)
    The brilliant Doctor Asif Qureshi will be investigating this case.

  3. the massive dinosaur - Noun phrase (NP)

  4. at lunch - Preposition phrase (PP)

  5. had been investigating - Verb phrase (VP)
    Doctor Asif Qureshi had been investigating this case.

  6. before that happened - Subordinator phrase (SP)



Here are further guidelines.

Where do you place descriptive adjectives in a simple declarative sentence in English language?
A descriptive adjective comes before a noun.
For example: The brilliant Doctor Asif Qureshi will be investigating this case.
The is the determiner.
Brilliant is the descriptive adjective.
Doctor Asif Qureshi = proper noun
will be investigating = verb phrase
This case = object

Absolute Phrase
What is an Absolute Phrase?
An absolute phrase is a phrase that modifies a whole independent clause (a full sentence); not just one word. It generally combines a noun and a participle, so it can be as short as two words, or sometimes have other modifiers and objects, too.

Absolute phrase (also called nominative phrase) is a group of words including a noun or pronoun and a participle as well as any associated modifiers. Absolute phrase modifies (give information about) the entire sentence. It resembles a clause but it lack a true finite verb. It is separated by a comma or pairs of commas from the rest sentence.

What are various examples?
Muffins baking in the oven, Amy waited for her friends to arrive.

Examples
             He looks sad, his face expressing worry.
             She was waiting for her friend, her eyes on the clock.
             John is painting a wall, his shirt dirty with paint.


Adjective Phrase
What is an Adjective Phrase?
An adjective phrase (or adjectival phrase) is a phrase whose head word is an adjective, e.g. fond of steak, very happy, quite upset about it, etc.

An adjective phrase is a group of words that describe a noun or pronoun in a sentence. The adjective in an adjective phrase can appear at the start, end, or in the middle of the phrase. The adjective phrase can be placed before, or after, the noun or pronoun in the sentence.

very happy - Adjective phrase (AP)

Adjective Phrase.

   An adjective phrase is a group of words that functions like an adjective in a sentence. It consists of adjectives, modifier and any word that modifies a noun or pronoun.
An adjective phrase functions like an adjective to modify (or tell about) a noun or a pronoun in a sentence.

Examples.
              He is wearing a nice red shirt.                     (modifies shirt)
              The girl with brown hair is singing a song.  (modifies girl)
              He gave me a glass full of water.                (modifies glass)
              A boy from America won the race.               (modifies boy)

Prepositional phrases and participle phrases also function as adjectives so we can also call them adjective phrases when they function as adjective. In the above sentence “The girl with brown hair is singing a song”, the phrase “with brown hair” is a prepositional phrase but it functions as an adjective.


Adverb Phrase
What is an adverb phrase?
An adverb phrase is a group of two or more words that functions as an adverb in a sentence. An adverb can modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb, etc. Similarly, an adverb phrase of more than one word can modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb in a sentence.

See these examples to get more clear-

I wrote this letter.
I wrote this letter smartly.
I wrote this letter very smartly.

As you can see that the first sentence (I wrote this letter) does not contain any adverb or adverb phrase at all. But the second sentence (I wrote this letter smartly) is containing an adverb (smartly) is describing the verb (wrote), it is defining how the letter is written. And, the third sentence (I wrote this letter very smartly) is containing an adverb phrase (very smartly) that describes the verb (wrote), defining how the letter is written but here an adverb phrase is used instead of a single word.

Appositive
What is an Appositive?
An appositive is a noun that immediately follows and renames another noun in order to clarify or classify it.

An appositive is a noun or pronoun that further identifies or explains another noun or pronoun in the sentence. An appositive is set apart with specific punctuation.

Since appositives add additional information to a sentence, most appositives can be completely removed from the sentence and the sentence will still be grammatically correct.

Appositives in Introductory Phrases
The previous examples show how an appositive can come after a noun it renames. However, appositives can also stand as the introductory phrase of a sentence before the noun.

Appositives at the Ends of Sentences
Similarly, an appositive can be found as a phrase at the end of a sentence.

How Can I Identify Appositives?
Appositives often immediately follow a noun; appositives always help to identify the noun.

How Do I Test for Appositives?
To test to see if an appositive is needed, replace the appositive with the noun being modified. The sentence should make sense if you substitute the appositive for the noun or noun phrase.

How Do I Punctuate Appositives?
Appositives are punctuated differently if they are restrictive or nonrestrictive.

Restrictive Appositives
Restrictive appositives are not set off with commas.

Nonrestrictive Appositives
Nonrestrictive appositives are set off with commas.

Identifying Appositives

Underline the appositive in each sentence. Rewrite the sentence
without the appositive to make sure it makes sense.

Seattle, the largest city in Washington, gets a lot of rain.
Seattle gets a lot of rain.

A talented teacher, Mr. Arthur is in room 200.
Mr. Arthur is in room 200.

Identifying Appositives

Trucks, large and small cargo carries, come in all colors.

Large and small cargo carries

The bald eagle , our national bird, soured above the trees.

Our national bird

I would love a bright red Porsche, a sports car.
a sports car.

Ken and Joyce, Ken's wife, are business partners.
Ken's wife

Macy's, a large department store, is centered in New York.
A large department store

The pyramid of Khufu, the Great Pyramid, loomed over the explorers.
the Great Pyramid

Noun Phrase
What are noun phrases? (with Examples)
A noun phrase is a group of two or more words headed by a noun that includes modifiers (e.g., 'the,' 'a,' 'of them,' 'with him'). A noun phrase is consisted of at least two words. However, there is no limit on how long a noun phrase should be.

Determiner + Descriptive adjective + Noun = Noun Phrase
1. Quantifiers
2. Adjective + Nouns
3. Noun + Noun
4. Noun + Preposition Phrases
5. Noun + Noun Clauses

Noun phrase is making the meaning of a noun more precise from the words immediately before (pre-modifying words) or after (post-modifying) it.

Two Types:
Pre-modifying words are articles, quantifiers, adjectives and nouns.
Post-modifying words are prepositional phrases and noun clauses.

1. A noun phrase can be a subject:
2. A noun phrase can be a direct object:
3. A noun phrase can be the object of a preposition:
4. A noun phrase can be an indirect object:
A noun phrase consists of a noun and other related words (usually modifiers and determiners) which modify the noun. It functions like a noun in a sentence.

A noun phrase consists of a noun as the head word and other words (usually modifiers and determiners) which come after or before the noun. The whole phrase works as a noun in a sentence.
Noun Phrase = noun + modifiers        (the modifiers can be after or before noun)

Examples.
            He is wearing a nice red shirt.                      (as noun/object)
            She brought a glass full of water.                (as noun/object)
            The boy with brown hair is laughing.           (as noun/subject)
            A man on the roof was shouting.                  (as noun/subject)

A sentence can also contain more noun phrases.
For example. The girl with blue eyes bought a beautiful chair.


How do you identify a noun phrase in a sentence?
In order to identify the noun phrase in a sentence, the heading noun has to be identified first. Then all the modifiers before and after it have to be identified. This group of words will be the noun phrase of the sentence.

What is an example of a noun phrase?
This is an example of a noun phrase:

the man at the table

The man at the table is a noun phrase headed by the noun man.

Here are some examples of noun phrases.

the man

This is a noun phrase as it is a group of words headed by the noun man. The is a modifier that has preceded the noun man.

a tree

This is a noun phrase headed by the noun tree. It is preceded by one modifier a.

a thoughtful man

In this noun phrase, there are two modifiers (a and thoughtful) before the noun man. man heads the noun phrase.

my neighbors upstairs

my neighbors upstairs is a noun phrase headed by the noun neighbors. It is preceded by the modifier my and followed by the modifier upstairs.

my American neighbors across from me

This is a noun phrase headed by the noun neighbors. The noun neighbors is preceded by two modifiers (my and Japanese) and followed by three modifiers (across, from, and me).

their leather boots

Their leather boots is a noun phrase headed by the noun boots. The noun boots is preceded by two modifiers (their and leather).

Prepositional phrase.

      A prepositional phrase consists of a preposition, object of preposition(noun or pronoun) and may also consist of other modifiers.
e.g. on a table, near a wall, in the room, at the door, under a tree

A prepositional phrase starts with a preposition and mostly ends with a noun or pronoun. Whatever prepositional phrase ends with is called object of preposition. A prepositional phrase functions as an adjective or adverb in a sentence.

Examples.
              A boy on the roof is singing a song.              (As adjective)
              The man in the room is our teacher.             (As adjective)
              She is shouting in a loud voice.                    (As adverb)
               He always behaves in a good manner.        (As adverb)

 

 

Adverb Phrase

An adverb phrase is a group of words that functions as an adverb in a sentence. It consists of adverbs or other words (preposition, noun, verb, modifiers) that make a group with works like an adverb in a sentence.
An adverb phrase functions like an adverb to modify a verb, an adjective or another adverb.

Examples
            He always behaves in a good manner.         (modifies verb behave)
            They were shouting in a loud voice.             (modifies verb shout)
            She always drives with care.                        (modifies verb drive)
            He sat in a corner of the room.                    (modifies verb sit)
            He returned in a short while.                        (modifies verb return)

A prepositional phrase can also act as an adverb phrase. For example in above sentence “He always behaves in a good manner”, the phrase “in a good manner” is a prepositional phrase but it acts as adverb phrase here.

 

Verb Phrase

     A verb phrase is a combination of main verb and its auxiliaries (helping verbs) in a sentence.

Examples.
             He is eating an apple.
             She has finished her work.
             You should study for the exam.
             She has been sleeping for two hours.

According to generative grammar, a verb phrase can consist of main verb, its auxiliaries, its complements and other modifiers. Hence it can refer to the whole predicate of a sentence.
Example. You should study for the exam.

 

Infinitive Phrase

An infinitive phrase consist of an infinitive(to + simple form of verb) and modifiers or other words associated to the infinitive. An infinitive phrase always functions as an adjective, adverb or a noun in a sentence.

Examples.
            He likes to read books.                             (As noun/object)
            To earn ________ is a desire of everyone.    (As noun/subject)
            He shouted to inform people about fire.  (As adverb, modifies verb shout)
            He made a plan to buy a car.                    (As adjective, modifies noun plan)

 

Gerund Phrase

A gerund phrase consists of a gerund(verb + ing) and modifiers or other words associated with the gerund. A gerund phrase acts as a noun in a sentence.

Examples
              I like writing good essays.                                 (As noun/object)
              She started thinking about the problem.           (As noun/object)
              Sleeping late in night is not a good habit.         (As noun/subject)
              Weeping of a baby woke him up.                       (As noun/subject)

 

Participle Phrase

            A participle phrase consists of a present participle (verb + ing), a past participle (verb ending in -ed or other form in case of irregular verbs) and modifiers or other associate words. A participle phrase is separated by commas. It always acts as an adjective in a sentence.

Examples
             The kids, making a noise, need food.                      (modifies kids)
             I received a letter, mentioning about my exam.     (modifies letter)
             The table, made of steel, is too expensive.             (modifies table)
             We saw a car, damaged in an accident.                  (modifies car)

 


Identify the type of phrase
adjective phrase
noun phrase
adverb phrase
verb phrase
preposition phrase

Questions that need to be answered.

What is a phrase and types of phrase?
How do you identify a phrase in a sentence?
What is an Adpositional phrase?
What is the phrase in English grammar?
What is an example of a phrase?
What is difference between clause and phrase?
What are examples of prepositional phrases?
What is a phrase verb?
What is a phrase for children?
Can a phrase be a sentence?
What are the three types of phrases?
What is a noun phrase with examples?
What is a noun or noun phrase?
What is an example of a verb phrase?
What is a verbal phrase examples?
What is the verb in a sentence?
What is an example of a verbal?
What is a verbal phrase in math?
What is a phrasal verb give two examples?
What is the difference between an idiom and a phrasal verb?
What are some examples of phrasal verbs?
What is a phrasal verb in English grammar?
What is a phrasal preposition?
What is a verb preposition?

Appositive Phrase

An appositive phrase is a phrase that renames an earlier noun or pronoun:

My best friend, Nick Palacio, loves scuba diving.

We watched Sirius, the brightest star in the sky.

In these examples, the appositive is a noun phrase. But you can use other phrases as appositives too:

My dream, to make it to the NBA, is what keeps me going. (infinitive phrase)

Matthew’s special talent, bouncing on his head on the trampoline, gives him a unique perspective on life. (participial phrase)

Appositives are great for inserting some extra information in a sentence. Absolute Phrase

An absolute phrase will contain a noun or a pronoun with a participle. Again it may also contain additional associative words and modifiers. An absolute participle will modify a whole clause, or even a whole sentence, not only one word. However, it does not constitute a complete sentence or a clause. Generally, an absolute phrase is separated by commas. Let us take a look at a few examples,

We were glued to the match, our eyes always following the ball.
He sat on the bed, his clothes neatly folded by his side.

Absolute phrases are the trickiest to identify. These phrases are not closely connected to the rest of the sentence; they don’t describe a specific word, but modify the whole sentence. They add extra information and are usually separated by commas (or dashes).

At the heart of an absolute phrase you will find a noun or pronoun and some modifiers. Very often the modifier is a participle:

The tide coming in, most beachgoers were packing up.

Absolute phrase: The tide coming in.

Here are some more examples:

The semester finished, Karen sold all her textbooks.

Absolute phrase: The semester finished.

The ice finally frozen over, we went skating.

Absolute phrase: The ice finally frozen over.

Another way to form an absolute phrase is to add an adjective to your noun or pronoun:

Her skin sweaty and hot, Tamara looked forward to having a shower.

Absolute phrase: Her skin sweaty and hot.

In many of these examples we could add the word being (Her skin being sweaty and hot), but you can usually do without.

You’ll also notice how close these phrases are to being a clause. All you have to do is add a conjunction and change the participle to a finite verb:

When the ice finally froze over, we all went skating.

Conjunction: When.

Finite verb: froze.

And the final thing to observe is that the absolute phrase can also come at the end of the sentence.

Noun Phrase

A noun phrase is any noun or pronoun along with its modifiers:

The school children
Yesterday’s newspaper
An old and rusted slinky

Verb Phrase

A verb phrase is any number of verbs working together:

Had been sleeping
Will contact
May have written

Verb phrases often contain adverbs that change the meaning of the phrase:

Has never lost
May not trespass
Am always looking

As the last example shows, verb phrases may include verbals (looking is a present participle), but a verbal by itself is not a verb.
Prepositional Phrase

A prepositional phrase always starts with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun (and its modifiers) that is called the object of the preposition:

Through the wheat field

Preposition: through

Object of the preposition: the wheat field

Here are some more examples of prepositional phrases:

During the year

Despite complaints
In the summer

Verbal Phrases

There are three types of verbal phrases: participial phrases, gerund phrases, and infinitive phrases. Each is explained below. Participial Phrase

Participial phrases start with either a present or past participle. Here are some examples of each.

Phrases with present participles:

Lounging by the pool
Chasing a butterfly
Watching silently

Phrases with past participles:

Struck by lightning
Driven to succeed
Loaned out

Gerund Phrase

A gerund phrase is a present participle (and its modifiers) that acts like a noun. It can take on a variety of jobs in the sentence. Here are a couple of examples:

Practicing helped a lot. (subject)
I love reading. (direct object)

Infinitive Phrase

An infinitive phrase is the infinitive and its modifiers:

To sing
To walk all that way
To mix peanut butter and jam

The infinitive phrase can also function in various ways:

To give to charity is a noble thing. (subject)

The neighbours have promised to stop playing the drums at night. (direct object)

The Participial Phrase

This phrase begins with a past or present participle followed by its modifiers and determiners.

They can be also used as adjectives.

Feeling the fresh air, Jim realized that he had reached the valley.

In the preceding sentence, the present participle “feeling” inducts the participial phrase, which includes the participle’s object (air) and its modifiers (the fresh). This participial phrase pretends as an adjective changing the subject of the sentence (Jim).

The enemies, trapped by the soldiers, threw down their guns.

Here, the past participle “trapped” starts the participle phrase “trapped by the soldiers” The entire phrase serves as an adjective transforming the subject of the sentence (soldiers). Notice the phrase-within-a-phrase here. “By the soldiers” is a prepositional phrase modifying the participle trapped.

Phrases can act as modifiers in other phrases.

The Gerund Phrase

Gerund phrase might look like a participle phrase as they too begin with the -ing form of the verb along with its object and modifiers. But, the gerund phrase aways serves as a noun in a sentence and not as an adjective.

Like other nouns, a gerund phrase can act as the subject of a sentence, the object of a verb or preposition, or complementary of a linking verb.

In the following example, the gerund phrase “Riding the Spanish bull” acts as a noun and is the subject of the verb “terrified.”

Riding the Spanish bulls, terrified Hugh.

What Are Verbals? (with Examples)
Unlike ordinary verbs, verbals are not inflected for person and tense.
A verbal is a verb form which functions as a noun or an adjective. In English, there are three types of verbals: ##Participles (past participles and present participles).
##Gerunds
##Infinitives

VERBALS (Gerunds, Participles, Infinitives)

A verbal is a verb form that acts as another part of speech—either as a noun, an adjective, or an adverb. Participles, gerunds, and infinitives are the three types of verbals.

VERBALS
(Gerunds, Participles, Infinitives)

Gerunds

A gerund is a verbal that ends in –ing and functions as a noun. It can take on the role of a subject, direct object, subject complement, and object of preposition.

Gerund as subject:

Traveling might satisfy your desire for new experiences.
Gerund as direct object:
They do not appreciate my singing.
Gerund as subject complement:
My cat's favorite activity is sleeping.
Gerund as object of preposition:
The police arrested him for speeding.

Participles
A participle is a verbal that is used as an adjective and most often ends in -ing or -ed. There are two types of participles: present participles and past participles. Present participles end in -ing. Past participles end in -ed, -en, -d, -t, or -n, as in the words asked, eaten, saved, dealt, and seen.
The crying baby had a wet diaper.
Shaken, he walked away from the wrecked car.
The burning log fell off the fire.
Smiling, she hugged the panting dog

Infinitives
An infinitive is a verbal consisting of the word to plus a verb (in its simplest "stem" form) and functioning as a noun, adjective, or adverb. The infinitive may function as a subject, direct object, subject complement, adjective, or adverb in a sentence. Although an infinitive is easy to locate because of the to + verb form, deciding what function it has in a sentence can sometimes be confusing.
To wait seemed foolish when decisive action was required. (subject)
Everyone wanted to go. (direct object)
His ambition is to fly. (subject complement)
He lacked the strength to resist. (adjective)
We must study to learn. (adverb)
Be sure not to confuse an infinitive--a verbal consisting of to plus a verb--with a prepositional phrase beginning with to, which consists of to plus a noun or pronoun and any modifiers.
Infinitives: to fly, to draw, to become, to enter, to stand, to catch, to belong Prepositional Phrases: to him, to the committee, to my house, to the mountains, to us, to this address

1. Which of the following can be used to form an adjective phrase?
a) Determiners
b) Adverbs
c) Infinitives
d) Noun clauses
e) A & B
f) C & D
g) All of the above

2. True or False: An adjective phrase can only be attributive.
a) True
b) False

3. Identify what is used to create the adjective phrase (in bold) in the following sentence:
“A man dressed in fine silk walked through the doors.”
a) Adverb
b) Prepositional phrase
c) Infinitive phrase
d) Noun clause

4. Which of the following does an adjective phrase require that an adjectival phrase does not?
a) A noun as a head word
b) An adjective as a head word
c) A noun to modify
d) An adjective complement

Correct

1. All of the above
2. False
3. Prepositional phrase
4. An adjective as a head word

What are adjective clauses?
The Components of an Adjective Clause

An adjective clause (which can also be called an adjectival clause or a relative clause) will have the following three traits:

It will start with a relative pronoun (who, whom, whose, that, or which) or a relative adverb (when, where, or why).
(This links it to the noun it is modifying.)(Note: Quite often, the relative pronoun can be omitted. However, with an adjective clause, it is always possible to put one in. There is more on this below.)

It will have a subject and a verb.
(These are what make it a clause.)

It will tell us something about the noun.
(This is why it is a kind of adjective.)

Phrasal Verbs

What are phrasal verbs?
A phrasal verb is a verb plus a preposition or adverb which creates a meaning different from the original verb.

They are (looking into) the problem.
Last Updated: November 30, 2021