What Is Verb Phrases

What is a verb phrase

• A verb phrase can be the predicate of a sentence or a clause.

• A verb phrase is simply a group of two or more words that function as an adverb in a sentence.

• Every verb phrase is a series of words made up of a preposition and its object.

• A word or group of words containing a noun and functioning in a sentence as subject, object, or prepositional object.

Which is NOT an example of a verb phrase?

• ..could eat..

• ..must go..

• The boy is training very hard.

• ..might listen..

Verbs phrases contain nouns.

• True

• False

Identify the verb phrase in the following sentence: Those girls are not trying very hard.

• Those girls

• very hard

• trying very hard.

• are not trying

How can a verb phrase be indetified?

• Verb phrases contains a preposition, object and its verb.

• Verb phrases contains a helping verb and a main verb.

• Verb phrases contains an adverb and a verb.

• Verb phrases contains a noun and a verb.