They do have a subject and a verb, but they do not express a complete thought. Another word for dependent is subordinate. Toggle navigation. Phrases and Clauses Examples. Phrases and Clauses There are many different types of phrases and clauses.
Video transcript - [Voiceover] Hello, grammarians. Hello Rosie. Phrases and clauses are both groups of words but they each do different things. So let's break that down. So, Rosie, if you'd please, what is a phrase?
So none of these things can be sentences, but they all, like you said, act like parts of speech. Okay, meanwhile a clause is a group of words that can be a sentence? For example, the wizard who cast a spell. Right, that can't be its own sentence, but it's got a lot going on. So this is a group of words. And we've got the falcon here, that's a noun phrase, that's behaving like a part of speech.
So I know that this definitely has a phrase in it, but is it just a phrase on its own? There are six types of clauses:. In the above examples, you might have observed, there are nouns and verbs too, but in no case, the nouns act as the subject of the sentence, doing a predicate verb.
When in a set of words, there is a subject actively performing an action verb , then that combination of words, is called as a clause. A clause can function as a sentence, which may or may not be a complete one. There are two parts in a clause, i. The predicate expresses something with respect to the subject. There are various types of clauses which are given as under:. The points given below are substantial so far as the difference between phrase and cause is concerned:.
You can easily find out, which set of words is a phrase or clause, by dividing them into various parts of speech. If the combination of words contains a subject and a verb, then it is regarded as a clause, otherwise, it is called as a phrase.
Hello Surbhi. That would be helpful. Your email address will not be published. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. First of all, here is my proposal for the definition of the term sentence : 1 A sentence is a maximal clause, i. Here are two possibilities: i A clause is a combination of a predicate full verb or nonverbal predicate and its arguments, plus modifiers. Is a sentence a possibly complex clause?
Is a clause a CP? Is a sentence a discourse unit? Is a sentence a clause plus dislocated elements? This ignores the distinction between subordinate and dependent clauses that I made in Haspelmath , but this blogpost is already long enough… Summary The definitions proposed here are summarized as follows: clause : A clause is a combination of a predicate full verb or nonverbal predicate and its arguments, plus modifiers.
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