PHRASES A phrase is a group of words that contains no subject/predicate set and acts as a single part of speech. A phrase is not a complete idea.

Difference between phrases and clauses: Clauses have subjects and predicates. Phrases don’t.

Appositive phrase: An appositive is an interrupting definition. Botticelli, the Renaissance painter, painted angels. My friend Hamlet is a woodworking artist. We always enclose appositive states and appositive years in commas: Athens, Greece, is the site of the Parthenon. June 20, 2020, is the date of the departure. NOTICE: We put commas before and after appositives. Don’t forget the second appositive comma! READ ONLY: Notice what happens if you forget: Botticelli, the Renaissance painter painted angels. (sounds like a noun of direct address)

Prepositional phrase: A prepositional phrase begins with a preposition and ends with the object of the preposition. Example: the dog in the boat (The preposition in shows a spatial relationship between its object boat and the noun dog.) READ ONLY: Prepositional phrases behave as modifiers; that is, they act like big adjectives or big adverbs. In the sentence, The dog in the boat barked, the prepositional phrase [in the boat] acts as an adjective to modify the noun dog.

VERBALS Verbal: A verb form used as a different part of speech. There are three kinds of verbals: gerunds, participles, and infinitives. READ ONLY: Gerunds are nouns (made of verbs). Participles are adjectives (made of verbs). Infinitives are nouns or modifiers (made of verbs). In other words, when we change a verb into a different part of speech, we call it a verbal.

VERBALS CONTINUED… GERUND: a noun made from an –ing verb. Examples: Clear thinking is good. I quit joking. PARTICIPLE: An adjective made out of a verb (always ends with –ing, -ed, d, or –en). Example: The river was so swollen. The running water made the ground slick. INFINITIVE: A noun or modifier made from the to- form of the verb. Examples: To think, to dream, to snorkel, to exercise. To think is a pleasure.

GERRINGS ADJECIPLES TOFINITIVES JUST REMEMBER… GERRINGS ADJECIPLES TOFINITIVES

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