Phrases and Verbals

What is a phrase?

• Group of words with a subject and verb.

• Group of word that completes the meaning of a verb.

• Group of words used as single part of speech and that has no subject or verb.

• Group of words that looks like a sentence.

A group of words that has a subject, a verb, and a complete message is...

• Predicate nominative

• Sentence fragment

• Paragraph

• Sentence

If a group of words, contains both a verb and its subject, it is called, a clause.

• True

• False

A prepositional phrase includes a preposition, the object of a preposition and any modifier of that object.

• True

• False

A prepositional phrase can work as

• Adjective phrase and adverb phrase

• Gerund phrase and participial phrase

• Noun phrase

• infinitive phrase

The object of a preposition can be a...

• subject, verb, and interjection

• noun, object pronoun, gerund

• adjective or adverb

• direct object, verb, indirect object

A prepositional phrase that modifies a verb is called an adjective phrase

• True

• False

A verbal is a word formed from a verb, but it cannot work as a verb.

• True

• False

The verbals in English are...

• nouns, adjectives, and adverbs

• Subject and verb complements

• participles, gerunds, and infinitives

• None of the previous choices

The participles can work as nouns.

• True

• False