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Paradisse Posted 22 years ago
Grammar

Phrases and clauses

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I want some one to explain to me the meaning of phrases and clauses
  

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In discussions of grammar, clauses tend to have subjects and predicates (but not necessarily), while phrases do not; the latter are merely groups of words that form a unit: Clauses: that I was not alone who was giving me the glad eye knowing who your friends are although not yet ready Phrases: In the basket (prepositional phrase) My old yellow hat (noun phrase) will not have been (verb phrase) relatively slowly (adverb phrase)

  • In discussions of grammar, clauses tend to have subjects and predicates (but not necessarily), while phrases do not; the latter are merely groups of words that form a unit: Clauses: that I was not alone who was giving me the glad eye knowing who your friends are although not yet ready Phrases: In the basket (prepositional phrase) My old yellow hat (noun phrase) will not have been (verb phrase) relatively slowly (adverb phrase)
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In discussions of grammar, clauses tend to have subjects and predicates (but not necessarily), while phrases do not; the latter are merely groups of words that form a unit:

Clauses:

that I was not alone
who was giving me the glad eye
knowing who your friends are
although not yet ready

Phrases:

In the basket (prepositional phrase)
My old

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