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BEFORE ENTERING MY
CLASS?
MISS RHURU
PHRASES
a phrase
a. is a group of words without a
finite verb
b. is a small group of related words
within a sentence or clause
English grammar phrases act
like parts of speech. In other
words, they can act as nouns,
verbs, adjectives, adverbs and
preposition
TYPES OF PHRASES
1. ENGLISH NOUN PHRASES
2. ENGLISH VERB PHRASES
3. ENGLISH ADJECTIVE PHRASES
4. ENGLISH ADVERB PHRASES
5. ENGLISH PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES
what am I?
1. Buy a big bright green pleasure
machine!"
(Paul Simon): ______
2. "I could dance with you until the cows
come home. On second thought I'd rather
dance with the cows until you come home."
(Groucho Marx) : ______
3. "Your father may be going away for a little
while.“ (Ellen Griswold in Vacation, 1983) :
______
what am I?
4. "Movements born in hatred very
quickly take on the characteristics of
the thing they oppose."
(J. S. Habgood) :___________
5. "It is always the best policy to speak
the truth--unless, of course, you are an
exceptionally good liar."
(Jerome K. Jerome) :___________
NOUN PHRASE
A noun phrase is word group with a noun or
pronoun as its head.