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Phrases

English Grammar and Skills Toolkit

Phrases

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In this unit you will…

Learn what a phrase is

Look at different types of phrase including noun phrases, verb phrases, adjectival phrases, adverbial phrases and prepositional phrases

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A phrase is a group of two or more words that does not make a complete sentence.

What is a phrase?

Add a subject and a verb to the phrase ‘to the park’ to make it into a complete sentence.

Why isn’t this a complete sentence?

For example:

A subject (the main noun of a sentence)

A verb (the main action of a sentence)

to the park

Because it is not a complete thought.

What is it missing?

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For example, ‘the over football’ is not a phrase because it has no meaning!

A phrase is not just any group of words.

What is a phrase?

The words in a phrase have to be linked together so that they have some grammatical meaning.

over the fence

Can you make the phrases ‘the muddy football’ and ‘over the fence’ into sentences?

the muddy football is a phrase.

is a phrase.

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Is it a phrase?

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Types of phrase

There are different types of phrase depending on what the function of the phrase is in the sentence.

Phrases add information to sentences.

Do you know what the purpose of a phrase is?

These are all types of phrase:

Do you know which types of phrase ‘to the park’ and ‘the muddy football’ are?

prepositional phrase adverbial phrase

adjectival phraseverb phrasenoun phrase