Earlier, we have looked at individual words and classified them according to their word classes, which we call Parts of Speech. During the previous semester, you have learned nine parts of speech - Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, Pronouns, Prepositions, Conjunctions, Interjections and Determiners. We have revised these grammar items in class. We have also discussed them in the facebook group "Learn a Word a Day".
This week, we will study groups of words which function as single units. They are bigger than individual words but smaller than sentences. This is the second level of classification - PHRASES.
In everyday speech, a phrase may refer to any group of words. In linguistics, a phrase is a group of words (or sometimes a single word) that form a constituent and so function as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence. A phrase is lower on the grammatical hierarchy than a clause
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