Concept of Phrases and Clauses English Grammar for all higher Class

Phrase: Three most basic elements of phrase are:
-Phrases are Group of words.

-Phrases Can not be used alone as it has got no complete meaning.

-Phrases Has no subject and verb.

Examples:

• On the hill.
• to read it
• In the north.
• Have to complete the task
• On the table.

Clauses: The Three most basic elements of clauses are:

+Clauses are also Group of words.

+Clauses Can be used alone as it makes sense by itself.

+Phrases Has subject and verb.

Examples of Clauses:

• who reach school late
• He is energetic.
• Til he stop shouting .
• Which is made up of Gold.

Types of Phrases:

Noun Phrases:The word group modifies the noun in the sentence. This group of words is called noun phrases.

Examples Noun Phrases:

• A bright blue Shirt.
• Large quantity of water.
• A sharp knife.
• An interesting and beautiful place.

Verb Phrases: Thre phrase contains helping verb and main verb. The helping verb modifies the main verb.

Examples Verb phrases:

• Has finished.
• Has got

Adjective Phrases:It gives more information of the adjective. It modifies the Adjective.

Examples of Adjective Phrases:

• way too high.
• More beautiful.
• VeryNice

Adverb Phrases:This phrase gives information about verb and in a way modifies it.

Examples of Adverb phrases:

• Carefully written
• Nicely done
• Really told
• Properly behaved.

Prepositional Phrases:This phrase gives information about preposition.

Examples of prepositional phrase:

• On the table
• In the east
• from the tree

Types of Clauses:There are two types of clause. Independent clause and dependent clause.

Independent Clause: It has got independent existance

Dependent Clause:It has not got an independent existance.

Examples of independent clause and Dependent clause:First part of these sentences are independent. And last part is dependent clauses.

• You may sit wherever you want
• We cannot leave till it stops raining.
• I know that he is a rogue.

Types of dependent clause:There are three types of dependent clause. Noun clause, Adjective clause and Adverb clause.

Examples of noun clause:

• I know that he is a rogoue.
• He said that Rahim is poor.
• Shilpa informed me that she will be absent tomorrow.

Examples of adjective clause:

• Pujpils who reach school late are fined .
• New Delhi which is 1200 km far from Durgapur.
• Table which is made of glass.

Examples of Adverb clause:

• We cannot leave till it stops raining.
• We have to console him till he doesn’t stops crying.
• We have to wait for result of the kite competition till the kite keeps flying.

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