Types of Phrases/Constituents

Question 1

What is a phrase?

Answer 1

group of words in a sentence with semantic cohesion (make sense) and syntactic cohesion (they work as a unit)

Question 2

What is a Phrase Head

Answer 2

one word that is more PROMINENT than others

determines the syntactic category of the phrase

Question 3

What is in a Noun Phrase?

Answer 3

• noun
  -determiner
• one or more prepositional
  phrases

Question 4

What is a Prepositional Phrase?

Answer 4

• preposition
• noun phrase (in the store)
• degree word (right on the table)

Question 5

What is an Adjective Phrase?

Answer 5

• adjective
• prepositional phrase (happy* about her date)
• Degree word (very happy*)

Question 6

What is a Verb Phrase?

Answer 6

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