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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

phrase

what does the word phrase mean in English??
  

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"Phrase" has multiple meanings in English. If you're talking grammar, it means a group of related words that work together in a sentence, but which don't comprise both a subject and a verb and which don't express a complete thought. In the previous sentence, "in a sentence" is a prepositional phrase.

  • "Phrase" has multiple meanings in English.
  • If you're talking grammar, it means a group of related words that work together in a sentence, but which don't comprise both a subject and a verb and which don't express a complete thought.
  • In the previous sentence, "in a sentence" is a prepositional phrase.
  • " They work together to tell you where it is that functioning takes place.
  • But none of the words is a verb, and you can't make a complete thought out of them when they stand alone.
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"Phrase" has multiple meanings in English. If you're talking grammar, it means a group of related words that work together in a sentence, but which don't comprise both a subject and a verb and which don't express a complete thought.

In the previous sentence, "in a sentence" is a prepositional phrase. The three words are related because "sentence" is the object of the preposition "in" an
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