Types of Phrases | Usage with examples | Difference between Phrases & Clauses | English Grammar
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- Types of Phrases | Usage with examples | Difference between Phrases & Clauses | English Grammar
In less that 30 minutes, you get a super easy lesson that takes you on a refreshing,
jargon-free journey to Phrase Paradise. You will understand what a phrase is, and how it is different from a clause. It will show you connections between Noun, adjectival, and prepositional phrases in minutes, using just one single sentence as example. It offers you crystal clear and brief explanations on functions of various phrases, and the questions you need to ask verbs and nouns to identify them instantly.
Usha Pandit shows you the critical links between Phrases and the 'infant terrible' of Advanced grammar, namely the dreaded Transformation of sentences from Simple to Complex. We will also recognize routine phrases that we use in everyday life.
The video must be viewed several times to reinforce your understanding. Make notes, and identify and practice your phrases to master them. Work holistically with clauses and types of phrases. No one will give you tips like we do, or demystify these bear bugs of grammar like us, and that, in record time of 28 minutes. Do not miss this powerful lesson.
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Hello Ma'am
Really useful video :)
Could you please give some exercises for phrases and clauses for Grade 7?
Would be really helpful..thanks
Get my books Language with Ease for grade 5, 6,7. It has got a lot of sentences and exercises. Available on our website: www.mindsprings.in
Thank you
You are indeed a wonderful teacher. Please keep uploading such grammar lessons.
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Omg ,what a explanation ! Mam. Salute to you for making me understand the topic which I had been trying to understand for 3 months.
You are most welcome.
Thank you ma'am
I understood this topic after you explained it
I didn't understood it before you explained it
Can you make a vedio of the chapter the great chess challenge from your English literature textbook of ICSE schools of standard 7
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You are very good teacher.
Thank you! 😃
I am sure I will be excellence if I watch your videos repeately. There are two clauses here one is independent and another is subordinate.
Yes you need to watch repeatedly if you want to study and practice with several sentences till you are doing it easily.
Your grammar lessons are just awesome....please please Upload more and more videos🙏🙏
Thanks Aditya. There are 20 odd videos on grammar in my playlist. Please watch.
What we can say other than A BIG thank you, for your generous heart to share a informative knowledge at free 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
My pleasure. Thank you so much for your generous praise.
Very beneficial for teaching purpose
Thank you
He was wearing a crown made of gold. The phrase starts with made but it is an adjectival phrase. You told that it begins with a preposition. Please explain me ma'am.
Yes. A prepositional phrase (that starts with a preposition) has 2 functions - adjectival (describing a noun) or adverbial modifying the verb). So here it is adjectival. Hope it is clear now.
Yes ma'am . Thank you. Today was my examination and I found no problem in figuring out phrases and clauses.
Mam thank you for posting this video. it has been very helpful as I have been seeing this video multiple times
It's my pleasure. The only way you will completely catch it is with practice. So do that too.
Ma'am you said in a pink lacy dress. If dress is there then it's a noun phrase n if we remove then it's adjective phrase. But ma'am how the girl in the shocking pink dress. Is adjective phrase????
the girl in the shocking pink dress - here the phrase in the schocking pink dress describes the girl not the dress. If you only take the shocking pink dress it is a noun phrase, in the shocking pink dress is a prepositional phrase, shocking pink is an adjectival phrase.
You are an amazing teacher!
Thank you! 😃
Hi. Please sort a doubt. 'His next door neighbor' will be replaced by 'Someone' because it is a person we are talking about. So how can we ask the question 'what'? Will the question not be 'WHO eoke him up?' The answer to which will be 'Someone woke him up'..? Is 'what' not an inappropriate question?
Yes who or what depending on the subject being a human or non-human. Obviously.
Hello Ma’am
Can only two words like
A book
The man
be a noun phrase?
I mean can just the article & a noun be a noun phrase
Yes. More than a word is a phrase. The more words you add like adjectives, adverbs or appositives, the more information the phrase gives about the noun.
Thanks again Ma’am 😊
Thanks a ton ma'am!! My exams are drawing close and the book is not enough for me as it contains a little content... I was very confused and then I found u..... I am soo lucky!!!
Most welcome 😊
Same here
Great
Mam how inspite of working hard will be phrase when working should be verb ..
working is not a verb in this phrase. It is a gerund - a noun which is the object of the preposition 'of'. Check out my video on Gerunds, Participles and Infinitives.
Can you please do a video on parenthetical expressions ?
Noted
Whether right or wrong, children pelted stones at the donkey. Mam could you please tell what kind of phrase is "whether right or wrong" and why. It doesn't seem to be noun or adjectival phrase. So it has to be adverbial but what adverbial question does it answer?
The question to ask is, to what is the phrase 'whether right or wrong' connected? It has been reduced from: Whether it was right or wrong - in order to create a simple sentence. The verb has been dropped. So what does 'it' refer to? the pelting. I would ask the verb why? Hence adverbial. It is a reason - but one with no choice.
If you get a better explanation, let me know.
Mam will you be kind enough to write the full question because I didn't understand how to ask the question 'why' to the verb pelting. Thank you so much for your replies.
I wish I had English teacher like you ... Coz my English teacher is very rude 😅
Your reasoning is unnecessary.
@@myst0_ jab teacher rudely bolii toh padne mein bannta hai
You still haven’t see her final form
Good morning .madam could you explain adjective phrase and noun phrase ..because adjective is there in both sentence s..
a noun phrase has the noun as the boss. So all that it contains including adjectives, conjuctions, and adverbs are servants.
An adjective phrase will have no nouns. e.g. The huge, destructive, earthquake is a noun phrase.
It is made of a group of ordinary adjectives. It may have some adverbs to modify the adjectives, and some conjunctions to bind the phrase.
e.g. 'extremely huge, overwhelming, and terribly destructive'. is an adjective phrase. The minute you attach a noun like storm to this. it will become a noun phrase.
View the video several times.
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I ve a confusion in case of contrasting adverbs/subordinating conjunctions like whereas,while and although. When to use and avoid comma in case Subordinating clause following Main clause ?
You always use a comma when you begin with a subordinating clause.
@@TheMindspringsEnglishTeacher yeah thats why my question is "why in some cases coma is placed when subordnate clause follows mainclause"... this example is from lexico.com ,‘.‘Berti wants as many of them as possible, whereas I deliberately minimised them"...similarly in others dictionaris coma has been used for contrasting subordinate conjunction .why?
@@MrMohy213 because when you put the subordinate first, the flow is not logical. You are reading the last part first. It is just to create clarity.
Mam you are the best . Mam i watched your videos several times. I have my english exam soon so can u just briefly expain me again.
thanks and regards
Sara
She slept ( in [her {warm, soft, comfortable} bed] ) the plain brackets ( ) is the prepositional phrase because 'in' is the headword. the [ ] square brackets is the noun phrase where 'bed' is being described by all the other words and the { } curly brackets is the adjectival phrase which is just 2 or 3 adjectives. A phrase has no verb. A noun phrase sits in a prepositional phrase and an adjectival sits inside a noun phrase. (prep [ Noun{ Adj} ] )
@@TheMindspringsEnglishTeacher thank you so much mam
thank you ma'am this really helped
Most welcome 😊
Ma'am, if an adjectival phrase starts with a preposition then how can it be distinguished from a prepositional phrase which also starts with a preposition?
A prepositional phrase works like a preposition and it tells you the relationship between two nouns. (house/mountain) in e.g. The house near the majestic and beautifully snow-capped mountain. The headword "near" gives you that. Change it, and the position of the house and mountain change.
The adjectival phrase is 'majestic and beautifully snow-capped' It works like an adjective and describes a noun. In this case a 'mountain', but otherwise, it could describe a hill, a roof, or a peak. The minute you add a particular noun to it, you "fix" the adjective phrase to that noun, and it becomes a noun phrase.
Respected Ma'am,
Thanks a ton for your reply..🙏
The girl in the blue dress is my sister. Here ' in the blue dress' is an adjective phrase, because it's doing the work of an adjective.
How am I going to explain that it isn't a prepositional phrase since it fulfils the criteria of starting with a preposition and ending with a noun which is the inherent nature of a prepositional phrase.
the art student remarked helplessly. Ma'am is this a phrase
ma'am please tell me
No. A phrase does not have a verb. In this sentence remarked is a verb.
What phrase will be 'look before you leap'?
Both 'look' and 'leap' are verbs, so wrong. It cannot be a phrase. It is a clause.
@@TheMindspringsEnglishTeacher thank you so much
Playing chess is my hobby.here playing is. Gerund or participle
Ask the question what? to the verb. What is? playing chess. Hence gerund.
He is playing chess - verb present continuous
Playing chess the boy lost time. Here it would expand to The boy who was playing chess (adjectival). This is a participle.
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Ma'am can you please tell that in the sentence, His next....... snoring loudly, ma'am snoring is a verb so how can it be considered as a phrase
is snoring, was snoring, will be snoring are verbs. Snoring when it comes on its own is not a verb. It is a participle with an adjectival function. It needs an auxiliary to become a verb and create a tense. Here it is an adjective (participle). It describes the man. e.g. snoring neighbour, the neighbour snoring loudly can be substituted by an ordinary adjective like the happy neighbour, the neighbour happy and carefree... See I have substituted 'happy' for 'snoring'. Is happy a verb? No it is an adjective. So the next door neighbour, snoring loudly, quite bald, in pink striped pyjamas...... etc. this remains a phrase.
Mam can u please tell me the answer of there are pine trees in the forest
Please give me the answer of this👆👆
what is your question?
@@TheMindspringsEnglishTeacher
Question is this - There are pine trees in the forest
Find pharse or clause
Mam please reply me fast
@@mansipatel3328 There are no verbs in a phrase. So take the verb out and you will get the phrase. It is easy
maam please teach english voc please
Please visit playlist. There are many videos.
Mam still confused in adverb phrase and prepositional phrase
Prepositional phrase begins with a preposition. It will always have a noun as its object. It shows the position, time or direction between two nouns or noun phrases.
A prepositional phrase can be adjectival (tells you more about the noun) e.g. The girl in the pink dress is my sister. (which girl?)
It can be adverbial (tell you more about the verb), e.g. The boy who ran in a mad hurry. (ran how?)
Adverb phrases acts as adverbs in a sentence. You can contract it to an adverb. E.g. In the meanwhile, (Meanwhile,) As a consequence (consequently) After some time (later). It will always modify the verb. Adverb phrases will never modify nouns.
Can we say all non verbs are phrases?
No. They can be gerunds or participles (-ing words) or bare infinitives (verb minus 'to') . Phrases need two words or more without a verb in them. Gerunds and participles can be part of a phrase.
mam, I, again and again, forget the phrases and clauses
especially those 3 types adverbial, adjectival, and prepositional
Keep it simple. Phrase (no verb) Clause (has verb) ok?
Prepositional phrase - begins with a preposition. (in the very long and jet black car) The preposition shows the position between 2 nouns (man and car). Not 'outside', not 'next to' but 'in'.
Noun phrase - ends in a noun and starts with a determiner. (the very long and jet black car) . The car is most important word.
Adjectival phrase - a string of adjectives and adverbs. (very long and jet black). This can be used to describe any noun.
Adverbial phrase does the work of an adverb. e.g. The man ran quickly (one word) adverb. at great speed (3 words and no verb - adverbial phrase. Answers the question how? The man ran how? It modifies the verb 'ran'
Hey! First up, kudos to you and the your team! you are doing the God's work here! Thank you so much! Just a small query , Pink being an adjective in Shocking pink dress , should'nt we use 'shockingly' instead of 'shocking'?Since,Adverbs should be used to describe an adjective (or a verb or another adverb for that matter) #nogrammarnazi #justcurious
Thanks Alan. Shocking pink is the name of a shade of pink like baby pink, rose pink, champagne pink etc. So no, shocking is attached to pink as one adjectival unit.
@@TheMindspringsEnglishTeacher Awesome! understood!
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Mam can u tell me one sentence. Underline and tell it's kind.
It was very hot in the afternoon. (If it is adverb phrase do tell the category)
find a group of words without a verb = phrase. then ask it the verb the adverbial questions: when, why, how, where? and you should get the phrase as your answer. You do it now. I will correct you.
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It's literally '1' day before my English exam and I was stucking only with this chapter mam. you have cleared it only in 30 minutes. Your explanation is way better than school teachers. Very nice explanation mam.
All the best. Good luck.
Thankyou because u made me to answer phrases easily
what are adjective phrases in these sentences
A bird in hand is worth two in the bush
he tells a tale with the ring of truth in it
only a man of plenty of money can buy a car of power and beauty
Why don't you try. I will correct your answers. Just remember they are phrases that describe a noun in the sentence.
@@TheMindspringsEnglishTeacher 1 in hand
2 with ring of truth
3of power and beauty
plus check
Thank you very much madam..IAM really lucky to meet you..IAM an english teacher in a school... excellent , marvelous .. videos..
Thanks Mohammed :)
Feels like back to school. A nostalgic lesson indeed.
Indeed
Ma'am in the example of adjectival phrase you have given example sentence
"The girl in the shocking pink lacy dress is my sister."
And you have said that the adjectival phrase in this case will be "in the shocking pink"
Ma'am won't the adjectival phrase be
"In the shocking pink lacy dress"?
As it will answer the question "Which girl is your sister?"
Ans: In the shocking pink lacy dress
Please answer
The girl is my sister - main clause.
which girl?
in the shocking pink lacy dress - adjectival phrase.
This is strictly a prepositional phrase with an adjectival function. Hence it can be called an adjectival phrase.
All prepositional phrases are either adjectival (describing the noun) or adverbial (describing the verb).
The nest of boxes for phrases is :
in the shocking pink lacy dress - prepositional phrase
the shocking pink lacy dress - noun phrase
shocking pink lacy - adjective phrase.
I hope you go it now. I think it is time for me to do a comprehensive video on adjectival phrases and clauses. :))
The walls made of stone have eroded.
The phrase is made of stone.
My question is why is have eroded not included.
PLEASE CLARIFY MY DOUBT IF ANYONE KNOWS.
'have eroded' is the verb. So it can't be a phrase.
'The walls made of stone' is a noun phrase. 'made of stone' is an adjectival phrase. 'made' here is not the verb it is a past participle adjective.
If I say The walls are made by the mason then 'are made' would be a passive verb.
Wow mam you teach us very well I don't like the phrase grammar but now I like it
Thanks mam
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Thanks for liking
I will buy apples and buy bananas.
I have noticed more than one teacher saying on youtube that : In above sentence the coordinating conjunction 'and' is connecting verb phrase 'buy apples' with another verb phrase 'buy bananas'. Now this explanation of those teachers confuses me for 2 reasons.
Reason 1 : - I always thought verb phrase was helping verb + main verb. But 'buy apples' does not have helping verb!
Reason 2 : - You have said in your video that phrases do not have verbs
Mam please clarify - is 'buy apples' a verb phrase ? or is there a another term for it in English grammar. If it is is indeed a 'verb phrase' then what are the ways of identifying verb phrases.
You are right it is not. buy is the verb and apples is the noun object.
I am bit confused in adverbial phrase, if preposition is used in an adverbial phrase then how to differentiate between adverbial and adjective phrases.
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A prepositional phrase starts with a preposition. It could tell us more about the noun or about the verb in the sentence. When it describes the noun it is adjectival e.g. The girl {in the pink polka-dotted dress} is my sister. Q: which girl?
Or it can be adverbial e.g. The boy ran {in a tearing hurry} toppled the cart. Q: ran how?
So the function in the sentence will decide whether the prepositional phrase is adjectival or adverbial.
Keep watching. :)
Please please please please.. Give us a view of your board and pl do away with the ridiculous transcript that constantly runs before the board.
Please please... That running writing commentary is of no help...
Pl, we need a full view of the board... Pl kindly step aside for a few seconds, so tht we can take a picture or see what exactly u r pointing at, on thr board.
Please please understand...
Thank you for watching. Luckily on TH-cam you can freeze at any point and view as long as you like. Please use the pause button. That ridiculous transcript can be switched off if you use the cc button. :) You seem to be really angry. You probably don't like my style of teaching is what I gather from your comments. I have 84,000 subscribers and 5 million views in just 3 years. There have been no complaints of this nature . I am sure you will find better teachers. Good luck.
Dear Madam
Recently I have started watching your videos and found that you are using a very light colour pen for writing on the blackboard which is not clearly visible hence it is requested that please use dark colour pens so that all may watch and learn properly. Thanks with regards Subhash Chandra Agrawal
Yes, correct. Sorry about that. Have changed pens of late.
Maam can you please answer these questions
Pick out the phrases and say whether they are
Adjective Phrases or Adverb Phrases.
a. He is a man of means.
b. The train is behind time.
c. He speaks like a born orator.
d. I have no time to waste on trifles.
e. He did it against his will.
Maam please it's very imporrant
I never answer questions. I only correct you. Please try first.
Most videos I saw on you tube weren't making the contents of phrases clear, they just seemed to beat round the bush and narrate the stereotypical definition without proper justification. Only when I bumped upon your video , could I actually understand the concepts... although the video is long but the longevity is inevitable if one has to comprehend the contents well.🙏
Thank you. Phrases are indeed foundation to the more complicated grammar ahead. Yes, it is a rather long video and I tend to repeat myself by sheer force of teacher habit. As you rightly say it is needed for comprehension and clarity.
Mam for me the adverb phrases are hard so can you help me in that?
A phrase (a word group with no verb) that answers the questions when? where? why? how? if not what? although what? put to the verb directly get the said phrase as answer is an adverb phrase. Check out my video on Adverb clauses.
Ok mam
Helpful video. But I'm little confused. For identifying any kind of clause do we need to ask questions to the verb? For adj, noun and adv clause. Kindly clear it
You ask the verb questions to get a noun phrase or clause (what?/who?) You ask the verb questions to get an adverb phrase or clause (when, where, why, how, although what, what if).
You ask the noun (which or what kind) to get an adjective phrase or clause
Hi ma'am I'm wery poor on English reading and writing and speaking but iam very much of interested to learn please help me how to start and which books are use full for me english language very important in my profession ple suggest
Here is a video that will help you. First make sure you speak and think in English. The rest will follow. th-cam.com/video/6DUFs7ykKQw/w-d-xo.html
Very nice explain ma'am
Thanks a lot
Hi, mam I am from 8th
I did not understand about adverbs phrase
and your video is very helpful
Thank you mam :)
Glad to hear that. Do ask if you have any doubts.
Madam your white board making more confusing with lots of unnecessary words plz make sure it's to be clean and clear while you teaching us.
Noted
A doubt ma'am - so while we write it down do we consider adjectival for the answer or the prepositional phrase or as noun phrase... For the phrase 'in the pink lacy dress'
A prepositional phrase starts with a preposition e.g. in the pink dress, If I change the preposition the meaning will change. right? Now this preopositional phrase can have either an adjectival function (my sister is the girl in the pink dress) which girl? Or it can have an adverbial function: He ran in a state of panic. He ran how? "in a state of panic" is a prepositional phrase with an adverbial function.
I was always confused in phrases but ma'am your videos have cleared all my doubts . Thank You so much . Keep posting such wonderful videos
It's my pleasure
Mam how do make that in the given sentence what is the phrase
Your question is not clear.
Ma'am you keep using the word "helper" in your lectures, do you mean helping verbs by that?
Yes. If I am talking of verbs a helping verb does the job of a helper, doesn't it? Don't worry to much about the labels, focus on the jobs that words do in sentences. That is the key.
superb explanation.Loved your video. waiting for more videos to improve a lot.Thanks a lot
Thank you. There are several videos. Please go to my playlist.
Identify the phrases and their types.
1. I have no time to waste on trifles.
2. It grieved me to hear of your illness.
3. I did it of my own free will.
Mam I have a confusion in these three sentences. Please help me out🙏
And your way of teaching is really good😊💕
I don't answer questions. I will correct if you answer them.
@@TheMindspringsEnglishTeacher To waste on trifles is infinitive phrase
To hear of your illness is also infinitive phrase
Of my own free will is adverb phrase/ prepositional phrase.
Amma make me correct if possible 🙏
Really ma'am your way of explaining is very good. This video helped me a lot.
Glad to hear that
i do have a question... "Karan lives in a yellow house." over here "in the yellow house" is a noun phrase, as given in my book. but it starts with "in" and does not answer "what" or doesnt give the answer as someone or something. I hope you can help
I though i explained this in this video. " in the lacy pink dress" = prepositional phrase. the lacy pink dresss = noun phrase and the lacy pink = adjectival phrase. Apply that to "in a yellow house" Get rid of the headword "in" and your noun phrase is correct as given in your book - per se. BUT in this sentence it does not do the work of a noun phrase.
Had your sentence been Karan has a yellow house - it would be a noun phrase. Here the verb 'lives' asks the question where? Hence it will be an adverb phrase of place. The question you put to the verb is critical. I hope this helps. I have a couple of more videos on phrases and clauses check them out. One on noun clauses too.
@@TheMindspringsEnglishTeacher thankyou
Dear Ms. Pandit, could you clarify if phrases should be taught before clauses or the other way around?
Always phrases before clauses. Phrases build to clauses when verbs are introduced into them. It is that simple.
hello mam
when I used to ask the question like what to the adverb sentence it gave complete answer like a noun phrase what shall I do
If you ask what to the verb you will always get a noun/noun phrase/clause. To get an adverb you must ask the verb when, where, why, how, although what, if what? Not what? So ask the right question to the verb. To get an adjective you cannot ask the verb anything, you must ask the noun who or which or what kind?
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Excellent lesson Usha. Much clearer than anything I’ve read in a textbook. If you have time I would really appreciate a diagram of the full sentence parsed into the different phrases. Many thanks Ruth
Thanks Ruth. The best way to understand grammar is by keeping it simple. The diagram method is very complicated and expect the learner to know all the parts well. I prefer brackets. PAN - nest of boxes. (preposition, adjective, noun order) This is the structure.
You remove Prepositional phrase (P) (beginning with a preposition) and what is left is a noun phrase N (beginning with the determiner and ending with a noun) You remove the noun from the end, and what is left is the adjectival phrase. (A) e.g. (on) the very long and intricately ornate (table). Now you can draw a diagram if you wish.
@@TheMindspringsEnglishTeacher Thank you so much Usha for taking the time to get back to me. I really appreciate that. Yes, I can see your point that diagrams are confusing and I will use your tips and perhaps colour code the different phrases.
Kind regards and keep safe.
Ruth
Mam can you please explain why the word 'said' in the following sentence is not a verb. Sentence- "Having said unkind things about him, you cannot justify your conduct." The first part of the sentence is marked as phrase.
Yes. 'Having said...' is a participle phrase. Will expand to a complex sentence: You, who has said unkind things about him, cannot justify your conduct.
Thank you mam. Keep on enlightening us with your videos.
Thank you Mam . I have two more doubts (from Wren & Martin) please enlighten.
I have no time to waste on trifles. Phrase-to waste on trifles Phrase Type(My answer)-Noun Phrase (to waste - Infinitive)
But the according to the answer key it is Adjective phrase.
I enjoy walking in the fields. Phrase (according to me) - in the fields Phrase type (according to me) - Adverb phrase (of place)
The book says that the phrase is - walking in the fields and phrase type - noun phrase
I am really grateful to you for making this excellent video.
Your direct object is (no time) and you will have to ask for what? to get "to waste on trifles" as your answer. Hence time is modified. You have time for other things, but not to waste on trifles. Hence adjectival. It is correct.
@@TheMindspringsEnglishTeacher Thank you so much ma'am.
He did it against his will, I did it of my own free will, Show me how to do it Mam tell me which kind of phrases are these
find the verbs - any continuous group of words that make some sense minus the verb is a phrase.
Ma'am,if preposition comes at first and if it has noun as the object it suppose to be 'prepositional phrase' isn't it? 18:29
Yes. If you remove that preposition, it becomes a noun phrase and if you remove the noun what is left is an adjectival phrase.
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Thank you mam and i want to say that tomorrow is my exam and the videos types of phrases, gerund participle infinitive,type of adjectives and type of pronoun these video are very helpful and useful to me thank you so much mam
Mam I have doubt with regard to this sentence in my text- Whatever your problem, it has a solution. The first part is the phrase. That is fine but the text identifies it as an adverbial phrase. How can that be? I thought it was a noun phrase answering the question "what has a solution" giving the answer "whatever your problem" Same is the case with another sentence- Rather than sitting quiet at home, he preferred to work in an office. The first part is an adverbial phrase.
The first one, is clearly a noun phrase. What has a solution? 'it' or 'Whatever the problem' which is just an expansion of 'it'. For it to be adverbial, I have to ask the verb 'has' the questions when? where? why? if what? how? although what? and I must get 'whatever the problem' as my answer. That is not happening.
In the second one, 'rather than' shows a negative choice or alternative. He preferred not to sit quiet at home / he preferred to work. So that phrase is an alternative for 'to work'. He preferred what? to work. (infinitive -noun) He preferred what? 'not sit at home'. Therefore, it is a noun phrase. If you want adverbial, you need to ask the verb 'preferred': how? when? where? why? what if? etc. and get the answer: 'rather than sitting at home'
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Try to understand it yourself. What is the theme? Does it happen with human beings and countries as well. Is it funny, sarcastic or serious? Do the questions that follow and it will give you greater appreciation.
In the following sentence 'That girl is my best friend' my grammer book says that the part of the sentence 'my best friend' is the noun phrase. By asking which question am I supposed to get 'my best friend' as the answer ma'am?
Yes it is a noun phrase. You ask the question what? is what? Ans: my best friend. Friend is a noun. my best friend is a noun phrase.
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ma'am in this sentence "people like to have money" can "people" be a noun phrase and in "I am tired" "I' is a noun phrase
If it is a phrase it will not have a verb. golden rule.
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Soon to leave the country for good, he visited his neighbours for the last time. This is given as an example for adverbial phrase. Mam what adverbial question should be asked to the verb visited?
You tell me. Which phrase are you referring to? There are two.
Adverbial questions are: why? when? where? how? although what? on what condition? Have a go. At the most you will get it wrong. I will correct you.
Mam "Soon to leave the country for good" is marked as the phrase. So I have a doubt if I should ask the question " why did he visit his neighbours" or "when did he visit his neighbours". Mam which is the other phrase in the sentence? Is it " for the last time"
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Ma'am, if we say a phrase has no verb , then how do questions come based on verb phrases?
A verb phrase is nothing but a compound verb. This means a verb that has more than a word. The only verbs that have a single word are go, goes, went - 1st and 3rd person singular and past tense. The rest are verb phrases - will come, should have gone etc. I prefer to call it a compound verb exactly to avoid this confusion.
Mam kindly explain about verb phrase , because as you said phrases does not have verb. Some are explaining helping verb + main verb forms verb phrases. Iam bit confuse.
The term "verb phrase" is used when the verb has more than one word e.g. 'shall be going' or 'could have taken' etc. This is what I call a compound verb.
Also if you add an adverb that could belong to the verb phrase. e.g. 'should have gone to school earlier' or 'may have rained at night.'
So, Verb, adverb and attached noun particles belong to a verb phrase - where the verb is central.
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Ma'am, i have a doubt " *the lady in my home* is my mother. Here " the lady in my home is a noun phrase, but in the same sentence " in my home " is adjective phrase. How? Plz let me know ma'am.
First of all, we never say 'in my home' we say 'at home' or 'in the house'.
'The lady in the house' is a noun phrase because the most important word is a noun which is 'lady.' A noun phrase is made up of the noun, and its adjectives, or its adjectival phrases, and articles and adverbs for its adjectives e.g. the awfully large and lonely house'
Strictly speaking, 'in the house' can be a prepositional phrase because it begins with a preposition. It does the work of an adjective because it answers the question: which lady.
Similarly, an adjectival phrase can have adjectives and adverbs in it e.g. the terribly sad and unfortunate + (noun).
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I looked for my cat under the table and in the cupboard. I want to ask that under the table is an adverb phrase or not. In the cupboard is also an adverb phrase or not. Please comment and tell Ma'am as well as other viewers.
Adverb questions: when? where? why? how? if what? although what? compared to what? Put these to the verb. If you get an answer it is adverbial.
It is an adverbial clause
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Maam can you tell the difference between adjective and adverb phrase .I have my English language paper. Please tell
An adjective is a single word. A phrase is a group of words without a verb or subject. An adjective phrase is made of adjectives and adverbs and conjunctions.
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Pick out various phrases in the following sentence "please remaine within call"
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The English in the sentence is wrong
mam sorry the sentence is " please remain within call "