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Function
One key idea is that a phrase can function as a part of speech. Phrases can function as adjectives, adverbs, or nouns.
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A phrase is a group of related words that does not have a subject or predicate. A clause is a complete thought which includes both a subject & predicate.
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Definitions
Prepositional Phrases
A prepositional phrase can function either as an adjective or an adverb. Prepositional phrases have a preposition, its object, and any modifiers of the object.
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Prepositions help us to understand the relationship between things. About, above, across, after, against, along, among, around, as, at, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, beyond, but, by, down, during, except, for, from, in, inside, into, like, near, of, off, out, outside, over, past, since, through, throughout, to, toward, under, underneath, until, unto, up, upon, with, within, without.
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Prepositions
Prepositional Phrases
Prepositions always introduce a prepositional phrase. A prepositional phrase always ends in a noun or pronoun called the object of the preposition (remember that a preposition indicates a relationship between things so it needs a noun or pronoun at the other end of the relationship). If the object has modifiers, they are also part of the prepositional phrase.
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Appositive Phrases
An appositive is a noun or pronoun that renames or identifies another noun or pronoun in the sentence. Fossey was a primatologist, a scientist who studies such animals as gorillas and chimpanzees.
The appositive phrase renames primatologist. This is nonessential or nonrestrictive, because it is not necessary to make the sentence clear. Nonessential appositives are set off by a comma or commas.
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Verbal Phrases
A verbal is a verb form that acts as a noun, an adjective, or an adverb. A verbal phrase consists of a verbal and its modifiers and complements.
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Verbal Phrases
There are three types of verbal phrases: participles, gerunds, and infinitives.
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Allen Iverson
How quickly can these tomatoes be shipped to stores?
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Voters elected Harry Truman, Roosevelts successor, to a full term as president. Nonessential Appositive Phrase
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The servicemen assigned to duty on that vessel remember the ship with pride.
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