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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Verb phrases

Having no one to play with, the child turned to books for companionship. Is the phrase at the beginning a verb phrase?
  

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Anonymous Having no one to play with, the child turned to books for companionship. Is the phrase at the beginning a verb phrase? That's not what it is usually called.

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous Having no one to play with, the child turned to books for companionship.
  • Is the phrase at the beginning a verb phrase?
  • That's not what it is usually called.
  • No.
  • That phrase is called a participle phrase.
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AnonymousHaving no one to play with, the child turned to books for companionship. Is the phrase at the beginning a verb phrase?

That's not what it is usually called. No.

That phrase is called a participle phrase.

CJ
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I'm stuck. What is a verb phrase? Some "grammarians" call verbals "verbs" in certain contexts.
I used to think a noun phrase had to be "headed" by a noun. Now I know better.
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AvangiWhat is a verb phrase?
It depends who you ask.

Traditional grammarian (exclude objects, adverbs, etc.):

The curtains may have been being changed by the palace guards on the day you visited the king.

Transformational grammar grammarian (include everything in the 'predicate'):

The curtains may have been being
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Having no one to play with, the child turned to books for companionship. Is the phrase at the beginning a verb phrase?

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