The Phrase

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The Phrase

• A phrase is a group of related words that is used
  as a single part of speech and does not contain
  both a verb and its subject.

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Different Kinds of Phrases

• will be leaving verb phrase
• around 300 prepositional phrase
• written by John Steinbeck participial phrase
• my third cousinappositive phrase
• to swim the English Channelinfinitive phrase

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Prepositional Phrases
After a long chase, the police officer found the
weak and wounded thief next to the vacant,
run-down building.

• A group of words consisting of a preposition
• Next to
• a noun or pronoun that serves as the object of
  the preposition
• the building
• and any modifiers of that object
• Vacant, run-down

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Participial phrase

• Consists of a participle
• exhausted
• and any other complements or modifiers it may
  have
• by their two-hour climb
• and acts as and adjective, describing a person,
  place, thing, or idea (noun/pronoun

Exhausted by their two-hour climb, the two
mountain climbers looked at every crevice and
crook, trying to find a good place to use as an
overnight camp.
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Appositive Phrases

• Appositive a noun or pronoun placed beside
  another noun or pronoun to identify or explain
  it.
• an artist John, an artist, will be working with
  the community to create a mural depicting life in
  their town.
• Appositive phrasean appositive and its modifiers
• a talented magician
• A talented magician, Mr.Betts often entertains
  his math students with his magic tricks.

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Infinitive Phrase

• Infinite a verb form, usually proceeded by to
• To speak
• Infinitive phrase consists of an infinitive
  together with its modifiers and its complements
• To swim across the English Channel
• that can be used as a noun
• To swim across the English Channel has always
  been Joes goal. (subject of the sentence)

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• as an adjective
• The best person to fix your computer is Joe
  Smith. (what kind of person-modifies a noun)
• as an adverb
• Sometimes it isnt easy to make new friends.
• (how easy..modifies an adjective)
• Practice writing sentences with infinitive
  phrases (to become) (to run) (to accept)