Adverb Clause
What is an adverb clause? Some basic rules are that an adverb clause will contain a subject and verb. It is a dependent clause. Like an adverb, an adverb clause provides the answer to the [...]
What is an adverb clause? Some basic rules are that an adverb clause will contain a subject and verb. It is a dependent clause. Like an adverb, an adverb clause provides the answer to the [...]
An adjective clause, like a noun clause, is always a dependent clause. Like an adjective, the adjective clause describes a noun. Since a noun can be a subject or an object, an adjective clause [...]
A noun clause is a collection of words, one of which must be a noun, which plays the role of a noun. As with a noun, the noun clause can be a subject, an object, or a complement. Although some [...]
An adjective phrase, just like an adjective, is used to describe a noun or a pronoun. An adjective phrase is a phrase – and by phrase we mean two or more words – that behaves as an adjective. It [...]
A noun phrase is a phrase – and by phrase we mean a pair or a group of words – that behaves as a noun. A noun phrase must contain noun or a pronoun. Remember that a phrase is different to a [...]
An adverb phrase is a group of words, two or more, that act as an adverb. An adverb phrase modifies a verb, adverb or adjective. It must be distinguished from an adverb clause (about which we [...]
The infinitive phrase, also known as the infinitive clause, is a group of words that combines an infinitive verb and complements or objects, plus modifiers to the infinitive and to the [...]
An absolute phrase is a noun phrase which modifies a sentence. It adds more information to the sentence. An absolute phrase refers to the group of words that accompanies an independent phrase. [...]
The appositive phrase acts as a noun, a noun phrase, or a noun clause. It appears next to another noun which it describes in a different way, and it is always separated by commas, and sometimes [...]
To understand what a participial phrase is we need to know what a participle is. A participle is a verb which functions as an adjective. Participles come in two tenses – the present participle [...]