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Phrase

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	Phrase - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A phrase (Greek φράση, sentence, expression, see also strophe) is a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence.
		Verb phrase (VP) with a verb as head (e.g.
		For example prepositional phrases express a figure-ground relation in which the prepositional complement is the ground, the preposition itself specifies the relation, and the precedent element is the figure.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phrase (588 words)

	Phrase article - Phrase Prepositional phrase preposition Noun phrase noun Verb phrase - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Informally, a phrase is a group of words in a sentence that functions somewhat like a single word.
		Noun phrase with a noun as head (e.g.
		Verb phrase with a verb as head (e.g.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Phrase (410 words)

	The Phrase
		English is a language with five classes of phrases, noun phrases, verb phrases, adjective phrases, adverb phrases, and prepositional phrases.
		Each phrase, remember, is a merger of both form and function, and, as complex as it looks, the diagram illustrates only some of the complexities of the noun phrase in English.
		This phrase is a 'nonheaded' construction in English since no one constituent functions as the center of the phrase, the center on which the other elements depend.
	papyr.com /hypertextbooks/grammar/phrase.htm (2244 words)

	Verb phrase - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A verb phrase (VP) is a phrase whose head is a verb.
		A verb phrase consists of a verb, often one or two complements, and any number of adjuncts.
		The VP is the whole sequence saw the man through the window, whereas Mary is the noun phrase (NP).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Verb_phrase (97 words)

	Sentences
		The noun phrase functions as the subject and the verb phrase functions as the predicate.
		The variations in the ten sentence patterns are in the predicate, or verb phrase.
		phrasal verb: phrase containing a combination of a verb and particle that produces a meaning that is not suggested from the meaning of the individual parts.
	www.uncp.edu /home/canada/work/caneng/sentence.htm (1358 words)

	The FrameNet Project -- Identifying Phrase Types (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In choosing the phrase types and grammatical functions to use, the major criterion was whether or not a particular label might figure into a description of the grammatical requirements of one of the target words of the project.
		A VP may be headed by the main verb in a sentence or it may be embedded as a complement under another verb.
		The reason for the analysis as a clause is that the noun phrase cannot be separated from the gerundive verb phrase, for instance, in passivization.
	www.icsi.berkeley.edu /framenet/book/PTs.html (2960 words)

	LEO: Phrase Formulas
		A phrase is a group of words that lacks a subject, a predicate, or both and does not express a complete thought.
		A noun phrase consists of a noun and all of its modifiers.
		An appositive phrase is a noun phrase or any other type of phrase functioning as a noun that renames a noun/pronoun preceding it.
	leo.stcloudstate.edu /grammar/phraseformulas.html (851 words)

	The Function Of Phrases
		A phrase may function as a verb, noun, an adverb, or an adjective.
		A verb phrase consists of a verb, its direct and/or indirect objects, and any adverb, adverb phrases, or adverb clauses which happen to modify it.
		A noun phrase consists of a pronoun or noun with any associated modifiers, including adjectives, adjective phrases, adjective clauses, and other nouns in the possessive case.
	www.uottawa.ca /academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/phrfunc.html (598 words)

	HF ENG 111 Grammar: Lecture 3
		The negator not is not regarded as part of the basic verb phrase, but if the speaker wishes to negate the clause, not (sometimes contracted to n't) is inserted after the first auxiliary in the verb phrase (I haven't met her / He isn't working just now).
		A verb phrase may contain at most one finite verb; it is always the first element in the verb phrase.
		Such a verb phrase is known as a finite verb phrase; a verb phrase with no finite verb is known as a non-finite verb phrase.
	www.hf.ntnu.no /engelsk/staff/johannesson/111gram/9900l03.htm (1318 words)

	The Gerund Phrase
		Gerund phrases always function as nouns, so they will be subjects, subject complements, or objects in the sentence.
		Be careful not to mistake a gerund phrase for a present participle phrase.
		The difference is that a gerund phrase will always function as a noun while a present participle phrase has the job of modifying another word in the sentence.
	www.chompchomp.com /terms/gerundphrase.htm (335 words)

	VERBS
		The -en verb ending used with a form of to have as an auxiliary is generally written -ed, as in has talked.
		In addition, many verbs in English are irregular; as result, their –ed and/or –en endings may not follow any obvious pattern.
		A verb phrase is defined as the main verb together with all its auxiliaries (helping verbs).
	wwwnew.towson.edu /ows/verbs.htm (387 words)

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		The parse tree for such a sentence records that the sentence is composed of a noun phrase and a verb phrase with an embedded noun phrase and an embedded prepositional phrase with an embedded noun phrase.
		And finally, the seventh rule says that a verb phrase is a verb followed by a noun phrase, and the eighth rule says that a prepositional phrase is a preposition followed by a noun phrase.
		Suppose we were traversing a noun phrase ATN and we encountered a or this it would be reasonable to attach a singular feature to the noun phrase.
	www.cs.cf.ac.uk /Dave/AI1/lang.html (2169 words)

	Phrases
		A phrase is a group of words that work together to express a unified meaning butthat lack a subject, a predicate, or both.
		The central element determines the type of phrase: nouns are used to build noun phrases, verbs are used to build verb phrases, adjectives are used to build adjective phrases, and soon.
		A noun phrase consists of the central noun or pronoun and all its modifiers, including determiners, adjectives, and adjective clauses.
	www.mhhe.com /mayfieldpub/tsw/phrases.htm (315 words)

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		We noted above that might have told is a verb phrase and a predicator, and that a good mouser is a noun phrase and a complement.
		The whole noun phrase could be the object or subject of a clause, as in The tiger who came to tea drank all the water in the tap.
		And the relative clause that lay in the house that Jack built is part of the noun phrase the malt that lay in the house that Jack built.
	www.grammatics.com /iel/notes/06grammar3.htm (1585 words)

	What is a verb phrase?
		In traditional terminology, a verb phrase is a phrase that
		is composed of a main verb and auxiliary verbs or verbal particles related syntactically to the verb.
		In generative grammar, a verb phrase is a syntactic unit that corresponds to the predicate.
	www.sil.org /linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAVerbPhrase.htm (107 words)

	Exploring Language: Bringing It Together: Phrases [English Online]
		Most noun phrases can be seen as expansions of a central essential element, which is called the head of the noun phrase (unless the head is a pronoun, which usually stands alone).
		This term is still frequently used today; a verb phrase can also be described as having a "passive verb", or we can say the verb is "in the passive".
		The understanding of passive verbs is a later development in language acquisition and might not occur until the child is over six.
	english.unitecnology.ac.nz /resources/resources/exp_lang/phrases.html (1638 words)

	TOEFL Testing Points Part 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The nouns may be the subject of the sentence, the object of a verb, or the object of a phrase in the sentence.
		An infinitive must follow the verb phrase "use their tusks." The word "to" means "in order to." The two infinitives "to pull" and "to protect" must be parallel.
		Some verbs must be followed by an infinitive, others must be followed by a gerund, and others can be followed by either an infinitive or a gerund.
	home.elp.rr.com /eslstudent/toefl_testing_points_part_1.htm (1937 words)

	Intensional Transitive Verbs
		A verb is transitive iff it usually occurs with a direct object, and in such occurrences it is said to occur transitively.
		Second, both types of verb create specific-unspecific ambiguities in their containing VP's when the syntactic object of the verb consists in a determiner followed by a nominal (this ambiguity is also known as the relational/notional ambiguity, following Quine 1956, where it was first studied, at least in the modern period).
		Depiction verbs, such as ‘draw’, ‘sculpt’, and ‘imagine’, resist substitution in their syntactic objects, at least if the clausal ‘imagine’ does: if imagining that Superman rescues you is not the same thing as imagining that Clark Kent rescues you, it is hard to see why imagining Superman would be the same thing as imagining Clark.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/intensional-trans-verbs (8835 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A verb phrase is similar to a noun phrase.
		The essential subject and verb of the sentence remain the same.
		In sum, if we're familiar with the essential structures of noun phrases and verb phrases, if we're familiar with certain indicator words--subordinate conjunctions, prepositions, and certain other adverbs (why, where, when, whether, how), we can sus out the adverbial elements of the verb phrase.
	www.gc.peachnet.edu /humanities/sprestridge/verbphrase.htm (345 words)

	English Works! Grammar: Verbs & Modals
		are verbs that are used in a verb phrase (meaning, used with a second verb) to show tense, or form a question or a negative.
		Helping verbs are used to show the perfect verb tenses, continuous/progressive verb tenses, and passive voice.
		is a helping verb when it is used to show the perfect verb tenses, or used to form a question.
	depts.gallaudet.edu /englishworks/grammar/helpingmodals.htm (637 words)

	Identifying the headword in the main verb phrase (MVP)
		The headword of the MVP is the verb.
		Recall that we identified the headword in a noun phrase as the word that agrees with the verb.
		The head of a prepositional phrase is also selected by the head of the larger phrase, either the verb in the sentence that contains the PP or the noun in the noun phrase that contains the PP.
	chss.montclair.edu /linguistics/lingpage/faculty/fitz/str/Quiz5.rev.htm (556 words)

	What is a phrase?
		A phrase is a syntactic structure that consists of more than one word but lacks the subject-predicate organization of a clause.
		Allowance may be made on a theory-specific basis for single-word, minimal instances of phrases.
		A noun as a minimal instance of a noun phrase.
	www.sil.org /linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAPhrase.htm (83 words)

	The Tamil Verb Phrase (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Verbs with weak present and future but past with doubled retroflex consonant
		Verbs of the problematical class V. The Verb: Person-Number-Gender Agreement.
		Use of «¶Õ cci with Class III verbs.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /plc/tamilweb/book/chapter3/node1.html (154 words)

	The Last Word in a Verb Phrase Must Be a Participle
		The principal parts of a verb are given in dictionaries, and the principal parts of the most common irregular verbs are provided as a separate list in many dictionaries and also in most usage handbooks.
		The improper use of the past tense rather than the past participle as the main verb in a verb phrase is considered to be a sign of particular ignorance, and therefore it is one that you should learn never to commit.
		Never use the simple past tense rather than the past participle as the main verb in a verb phrase (i.e., the last verb in the phrase).
	www.grammartips.homestead.com /pastparticiples.html (475 words)

	ABSTRACT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The purpose of this study is to investigate the processes of the morphological analysis in Korean Eojeol constructed by the inflected verbs.
		The first model suggests that the inflected verbs are segmented into the related stems and suffixes and then those elements are accessed.
		In the experiment ¥°, primes were the inflected verbs composed of the stems and suffixes, in which the stem of the prime has two meanings, in which the primes should be verb stems, and the target in the combined word of prime word.
	homepage.psy.utexas.edu /homepage/group/MarkmanLAB/kyungil/Kor/pub/abs2.htm (294 words)

	The Verb Phrase Page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Special forms of the verb are used for commands, eg.
		Forms of the Verb Phrase other than present and preterite tenses could be created in OE, as in PDE, by means of Auxiliary Verbs followed by Main Verbs.
		Verb Phrases consisting of Auxiliary Verb + Main Verb, as opposed to the 'simple' present and preterite tenses, which consist of a Finite Main Verb only); included in this category are perfect aspect and passive voice.
	www.arts.gla.ac.uk /SESLl/STELLA/OE_Basics/VerbPhrase2.html (395 words)

	A Simple Lisp Program
		The idea is that anywhere we want a sentence, we can generate a noun phrase followed by a verb phrase.
		Anywhere a noun phrase has been specified, we generate instead an article followed by a noun.
		Suppose that we now want to allow noun phrases to be modified by an indefinite number of adjectives and an indefinite number of prepositional phrases.
	www.cpe.ku.ac.th /~arnon/lisp/lisp07.html (1409 words)

	2.4b - Noun & Verb Phrases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		noun phrase: a nice, cold, vanilla shake noun phrase as complement: Calgary is a sunny location.
		verb phrase: have been reading There may be a storm tonight.
		Type all the words which constitute the noun or verb phrase in the sentence.
	www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/eduweb/grammar/course/sentence/2_4b.htm (150 words)

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		The object of a transitive verb may be a reflexive pronoun, as in he killed himself, where the reflexive can be replaced by another pronoun (he killed her) or a full noun phrase (he killed the man) without any other change than the one signalled by the choice of object.
		With reflexive verb is meant such a use of verb + reflexive that is lexicalized as a semantically homogenous unit where the reflexive does not have a clear referent: in such a case, the reflexive pronoun cannot be replaced by a noun.
		The predicative complement in Swedish is either a noun phrase (1), an adjective phrase (2), a prepositional phrase (3) or a subordinate clause (4).
	www.hum.uit.no /a/svenonius/lingua/flow/co/gram/rfgrsv/svrfgr2a.html (2771 words)

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