Hear or listen to? High or tall? Historic or historical? House or home? How is …? If or when? If or whether? Ill or sick? Imply or infer? In the way or on the way? Late or lately? Lay or lie? Lend or borrow?
Less or fewer? Look at , see or watch? Low or short? Man , mankind or people? Maybe or may be? Maybe or perhaps? Nearest or next? Never or not … ever? Nice or sympathetic?
No doubt or without doubt? No or not? Nowadays , these days or today? Open or opened? Opportunity or possibility? Opposite or in front of? Other , others , the other or another? Out or out of? Permit or permission? Person , persons or people?
Pick or pick up? Play or game? Politics , political , politician or policy? Price or prize? Principal or principle? Quiet or quite? Raise or rise? Remember or remind? Right or rightly? Rob or steal? Say or tell? So that or in order that? Sometimes or sometime? Sound or noise? Speak or talk? In English, sentences have two basic parts: a subject and a verb.
In fact, any phrase that contains both a subject and a verb is a clause. Some clauses can contain two verbs. These constructions are called compound verbs, meaning that two verbs appear in a single sentence, even when there is only one subject. A verb phrase is a syntactic unit consisting of an auxiliary helping verb preceding the main verb. Helping verbs may appear as: is, are, be, such as, was, were, been, being, have, had, has, do, did, does, can, could, will, would, shall, should, may, must, might, etc.
An adjective phrase is a group of words headed by an adjective that modifies a noun. Example: She had extremely menacing eyes. Skip to content Philology. What is the difference between a verb phrase and a noun phrase? The relationship between them is very close that one may cause the presence of another.
This is often called a subject-predicate relationship and their degree is a bilateral dependency i. Other relationships among different phrases are one-sided or in the form of modifiers, subordinators, or complementizers, one is more important than others.
What are noun phrases, verb phrases, and adjective phrases? There are several different types, as follows: Noun phrase A noun phrase is built around a single noun, for example: A vase of roses stood on the table. Verb phrase A verb phrase is the verbal part of a clause, for example: She had been living in London. I will be going to college next year. Prepositional phrase In a prepositional phrase the preposition always comes at the beginning, for example: I longed to live near the sea.
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