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Phrases
English Grammar and Skills Toolkit
Phrases
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Learning Objectives
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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What is a phrase?
A phrase is a group of two or more words that does not
make a complete sentence.
For example: to the park
Why isn’t this a complete sentence?
Because it is not a complete thought.
What is it missing?
A subject (the main noun
of a sentence)
A verb (the main action of
a sentence)
Add a subject and a verb to the phrase ‘to the park’
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What is a phrase?
A phrase is not just any group of words.
For example, ‘the over football’ is not a phrase because
it has no meaning!
the muddy football is a phrase.
over the fence
is a phrase.
The words in a phrase have to be
linked together so that they have
some grammatical meaning.
Can you make the phrases ‘the muddy football’
and ‘over the fence’ into sentences?
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Is it a phrase?
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Types of phrase
Do you know what the purpose of a phrase is?
Phrases add information to sentences.
There are different types of phrase depending on what
the function of the phrase is in the sentence.
These are all types of phrase:
noun phrase
verb phrase
prepositional phrase
adjectival phrase
adverbial phrase
Do you know which types of phrase ‘to the park’
and ‘the muddy football’ are?
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