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Revision as of 14:03, 25 April 2017
Phrases consist of one or more words that behave like a unit syntactically. Phrases typically have a unique head, i.e. a most important word after which the phrase is named. Thus, the head of a noun phrase is a noun, etc.
The major phrases of English are the following:
1. Noun phrases (NP)
2. Verb phrases (VP)
3. Adjective phrases (AP)
4. Prepositional phrases (PP)
5. Adverbial phrases (AdvP)
The predicate The subject The complements: The direct object The indirect object The predicative complement The oblique complement The modifiers